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Examples:Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too—Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it—fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was—lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept—lit. the birds are over, the bow is put away (idiom); fig. get rid of sb once he has served his purpose—once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope—only met with once every hundred years (drought, flood etc)—bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy—"shikumen" style architecture: traditional (ca. 19th century) residences with courtyards, once common in Shanghai—once the main problem is solved, all troubles are solved—lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns have influence—get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful—water once spilt cannot be retrieved (idiom); irreversible change—lively discussion with everybody talking at once—change at once on seeing sth different (idiom); loving fads and novelty—seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom); seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others—after the celebrations (i.e. once the festival is over)—lit. covet Sichuan once Gansu has been seized—Deutsch-französische Jahrbücher (published once in 1844 by Karl Marx and bourgeois radical Arnold Ruge)—once it starts, everything goes well—It's too late plug the leak once ship is in the middle of the river. [idiom.]—classifier for enumerated events e.g. once, twice, three times—where there's a start, there's a finish (idiom); finish once one starts sth— |