旧病复发 — Chinese idiom
旧病复发
jiù bìng fù fā
Traditional: 舊病復發
Meaning
- old illness recurs ; a relapse
- fig. to repeat an old error
- the same old problem
Character by character
- 旧jiùold, ancient; former, past
- 病bìngsickness, illness, disease
- 复fùagain, repeatedly; copy, duplicate; to restore, to
- 发fāto issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
Idioms sharing a character
- 喜新厌旧 xǐ xīn yàn jiù
- 因循守旧 yīn xún shǒu jiù
- 新仇旧恨 xīn chóu jiù hèn
- 新愁旧恨 xīn chóu jiù hèn
- 新瓶旧酒 xīn píng jiù jiǔ
- 汰旧换新 tài jiù huàn xīn
- 率由旧章 shuài yóu jiù zhāng
- 破旧立新 pò jiù lì xīn
- 旧地重游 jiù dì chóng yóu
- 旧愁新恨 jiù chóu xīn hèn
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