<entry id="2221881" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2779740</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>蛇に噛まれて朽ち縄に怖じる</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>蛇に咬まれて朽ち縄に怖じる</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>蛇に噛まれて朽縄に怖じる</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>蛇に噛まれて朽縄におじる</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>蛇にかまれて朽縄におじる</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>へびにかまれてくちなわにおじる</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<pos>&v1;</pos>
<misc>&proverb;</misc>
<gloss>once bitten twice shy</gloss>
<gloss>to become over cautious from a bad experience</gloss>
<gloss g_type="lit">to be bitten by a snake and thus fear a rotten rope (which resembles a snake)</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2013-03-24 02:34:38" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>pupchurch</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Paul Upchurch</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>daijs, nikk
http://www.practical-japanese.com/2012/12/blog-post_2811.html
Ordered by hits (only included surface forms with at least 100 hits)</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-03-26 05:20:38" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-02-14 00:20:16" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>The first form is in daijs. Maybe the rest can be hidden.</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -8,0 +9 @@
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;
@@ -11,0 +13 @@
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;
@@ -14,0 +17 @@
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;
@@ -17,0 +21 @@
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;
@@ -23,0 +28 @@
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;v1;&lt;/pos&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-02-14 02:32:44" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I guess so. It's on kotozawa lists.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -28,0 +29 @@
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;proverb;&lt;/misc&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-02-14 19:42:19" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>I was mistaken in my comment below, so I just want to note for posterity that daijs and koj have the 朽縄 version.

朽ち縄 is in jitsuyou. It seems to be the more common form.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーー─┬────╮
│ 朽ち縄に怖じる　 │ 59 │
│ 朽縄に怖じる　　 │  0 │
│ 朽ち縄におじる　 │  0 │
│ 朽縄におじる　　 │  0 │
│ くちなわに怖じる │  0 │
│ くちなわにおじる │  0 │
╰─ーーーーーーーー─┴────╯</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-02-14 21:03:02" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>