Πρόκειται για το σύνδρομο «όποιος καεί με το χυλό φυσά και το γιαούρτι».
Ή, ακόμα και δώρα να μας χαρίσουν, θα φοβόμαστε ότι, με το που θα ανοίξουμε το κουτί, θα πεταχτεί ο φορομπήχτης.
Αλλά εδώ είναι το ελληνοαγγλικό νήμα. Δύο προτάσεις έχω για το αγγλικό:
όποιος καεί με το χυλό φυσά και το γιαούρτι
once bitten, twice shy
a burnt child dreads the fire
Επειδή το Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs τα έχει και δύο, τα παρουσιάζω στην ιστορική τους εξέλιξη:
The variant once burned, twice shy is particularly common in the US, perhaps influenced by a burnt child dreads the fire.
- Jawleyford had been bit once, and he was not going to give Mr. Sponge a second chance. [1853 Surtees Sponge's Sporting Tour xxxvii.]
- Once bitten, twice shy. [1894 G. F. Northall Folk-Phrases 20]
- Once bit twice shy. He had no mind to be kidnapped. [1920 Conrad Rescue III. ix.]
- She was especially on her guard‥because she'd been victimized in a stupid swindle herself, recently. Once burned, twice shy, you know. [1949 ‘S. Sterling’ Dead Sure XV.]
- I can't imagine why this man would be harassing my wife again, Mr. Cooperman. You'd think ‘Once burned, twice shy’, wouldn't you. [1981 H. Engel Ransom Game xvi.]
- Once bitten, twice shy when thinking of certain shops. [1998 Times 7 Jan. 27/6]
- Brend child fuir fordredeth [is in dread of]. [c 1250 Proverbs of Hending in Anglia (1881) IV. 199]
- ‘For evermore gladly,’ as I rede, ‘Brent child of fier hath mych drede.’ [c 1400 Romaunt of Rose l. 1820]
- A burnt childe dreadeth the fire. ‥Thou mayst happely forsweare thy selfe, but thou shalt neuer delude me. [1580 Lyly Euphues & his England II. 92]
- He then observed, that a burnt child dreads the fire;‥that a Jew had lately passed thro' France, who had put off false Bank notes, and that I might‥have taken some. [1777 P. Thicknesse Journey I. xviii.]
- She will not touch a match or a lighted candle‥which proves that the proverb is true which says: a burnt child dreads the fire. [1889 Pictorial Proverbs for Little People 5]
- The burnt child fears the fire, and bitter experience had taught Pongo Twistleton to view with concern the presence in his midst of Ickenham's fifth earl. [1948 Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite II. vii.]
- The burned child fears the fire and when dawn breaks next Tuesday voters may pull the covers over their ringing heads and refuse to get out of bed. [1984 Newsweek 5 Nov. 98]
