Once bitten twice shy is an idiom that means that, if you have been offended or disappointed by someone in the past, you are likely not to ever trust that person or even want to have anything to do with the person in future. It could even be a mistake made in the past, and it is only natural not to want to have a repeat of a mistake previously made.
One is said to be once bitten twice shy, when trying to be careful to avoid a repeat occurrence of a previous mistake. This applies to our everyday live as individuals, in our businesses and even in our relationships as well.
In our everyday lives, accidents occur by mistake and so the next time something similar wants to occur, we become more careful to avoid it, why? It’s because the last time it caused an accident. So we tend to be more cautious. In our business, we avoid contract deals with people that couldn't deliver or disappointed in the past. In our relationship with guys especially, when we have been heartbroken by a guy in the past and a new guy comes around, portraying the same traits as the other guy, we become shy to have anything to do with that person because, for the same obvious reason the last time we did, it was not favorable.
The illustrations above shows that it is natural to be once bitten twice shy, being that nobody wants to be ill treated once and deliberately let it happen again while it could be avoided. Just like the lady in the picture who probably sat on a shark in the past and was hurt, when she was about to sit on the shark the next time, she recalled how she was hurt the last time and decided otherwise.
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