驷马难追 (駟馬難追) sì mǎ nán zhuī
sì mǎ nán zhuī
set phrase
[a spoken word is] hard to catch even with a team of four horses
Domain: Idiom 成语
Notes: (Guoyu '駟馬難追')
Contained in
- 一言既出，驷马难追(一言既出，駟馬難追) once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it; a promise must be kept ; a word spoken is an arrow let fly
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Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Scroll 1 Quotations from Chan Master Ming Jue 明覺禪師語錄 — count: 1
- Scroll 13 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 1
- Scroll 2 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 1
- Scroll 3 Ji Gu Jin Fodao Lun Heng 集古今佛道論衡 — count: 1
- Scroll 3 Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳 — count: 1
- Scroll 6 Wan Song Laoren Ping Chang Tian Tong Jue Heshang Song Gu Congrong An Lu 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 — count: 1 , has English translation
- Scroll 5 Quotations from Abbot Xu Tang 虛堂和尚語錄 — count: 1
- Scroll 2 Wan Song Laoren Ping Chang Tian Tong Jue Heshang Song Gu Congrong An Lu 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 — count: 1 , has English translation
Collocations
- 失驷马难追 (失駟馬難追) 易失駟馬難追 — Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳, Scroll 3 — count: 2