I'd done it before, and as the old saying goes, once burned, twice shy.

Once bit, twice shy; especially as your business is known to be patronised by some very shady customers.

Once burned, twice shy, the old saying went.

But it is a difficult subject, and anyone who respects its difficulty will be twice shy without waiting to be burned.

This time around it is a case of 'once bitten, twice shy' and their doubt is not simple but compound.

After the events from 1917 to 1991, Russians are once bitten, twice shy, when it comes to the collapse of regimes.

But she had already been bitten once by the demented collie, and so was twice shy.

"Once burned, twice shy," Hundt said, reflecting about his experience.

As for women, it was a case of once burned, twice shy.

Tammad asked, his mind wary with "once bitten, twice shy."