骄者必败 — Chinese idiom
骄者必败
jiāo zhě bì bài
Traditional: 驕者必敗
Meaning
- pride goes before a fall
Character by character
- 骄jiāohaughty, spirited; a wild stallion
- 者zhěthat which; they who; those who
- 必bìsurely, certainly; must; will
- 败bàifailure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
Idioms sharing a character
- 戒骄戒躁 jiè jiāo jiè zào
- 骄兵必败 jiāo bīng bì bài
- 之乎者也 zhī hū zhě yě
- 来者不拒 lái zhě bù jù
- 始作俑者 shǐ zuò yǒng zhě
- 旁观者清 páng guān zhě qīng
- 更有甚者 gèng yǒu shèn zhě
- 能者多劳 néng zhě duō láo
- 分秒必争 fēn miǎo bì zhēng
- 势在必得 shì zài bì dé
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