/ · 1894 Brewer’s · B · Burnt
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The burnt child dreads the fire. Once caught, twice shy. “What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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