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trèo cao té đau

harder they fall
Phrase
harder they fall

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Meaning
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Sense 1 Phrase
harder they fall Discourse & LogicTheme

A proverb suggesting that the more ambitious or successful someone becomes, the more painful their failure will be.

vi Tục ngữ có câu trèo cao té đau để cảnh báo sự tham vọng.

en The proverb says the harder they fall to warn against ambition.

Parts
té / đau / 蹽高𨄊忉
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Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
蹽高𨄊忉
Candidates by syllable
trèo 蹽(𨅹) cao 高 té 𨄊 đau 忉(𤴬)
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
Similar
trèo / trèo leo / trèo trẹo / trèo cây …
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Use
té ra / bó té / té giếng / mém té …
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