Gato escaldado tem medo de água fria.
“A scalded cat fears even cold water.”
A painful past experience makes a person wary even of harmless things afterward.
— Traditional Brazil Wisdom, Brazil
Source: Traditional Brazilian proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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