gato escaldado de água fria tem medo

Portuguese

Etymology

Literally, “a scalded cat is afraid of cold water”. Compare Spanish gato escaldado del agua fría huye and Catalan gat escaldat amb aigua tèbia en té prou.

Proverb

gato escaldado de água fria tem medo

  1. once bitten, twice shy
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.