事不过三 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 事不過三 shìbùguòsān ㄕˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄍㄨㄛˋ ㄙㄢ 男 女 a thing should not be attempted more than three times don't repeat the same mistake again and again idiom bad things don't happen more than three times idiom Character by character 事(shì)matter 不(bù)no 过(guò)cross 三(sān)three Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0