타산지석

tasanjiseok
NounTOPIK 2 - Advanced

Definitions

learning from someone else's mistakes; lesson from someone else's failures
(figurative) An idiom implying that even someone's bad attitude or misbehavior can help one to think twice and correct one's own behavior or mind.
(비유적으로) 다른 사람의 좋지 않은 태도나 행동도 자신의 몸과 마음을 바로잡는 데에 도움이 될 수 있음.

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Dictionary data from Korean Learners' Dictionary (한국어기초사전) by the National Institute of Korean Language, licensed under CC BY-SA.