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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)—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— |