Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide.
“A scalded cat fears even cold water.”
A painful past experience makes a person overly cautious even about harmless things afterward.
— Traditional Jersey / Jèrriais Wisdom, Jersey
Source: Traditional Norman-French proverb, shared regional heritage of Jèrriais and the Channel Islands, public-domain oral tradition
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