后悔药 (hòu huǐ yào) — regret medicine (figurative: no way to undo a regretted action, often in 没有后悔药)
Definition
后悔药 is a figurative noun, almost always used in the set phrase 没有后悔药 ('there's no regret medicine' = there's no way to undo it). It is not a real medicine — the meaning is that regretted actions cannot be reversed.
noun
regret medicine (figurative: no way to undo a regretted action, often in 没有后悔药)
Examples
- 后悔药。Shì jiè shàng méi yǒu hòu huǐ yào.There is no regret medicine in the world.
- ，后悔药。Nǐ yào xiǎng qīng chǔ, yīn wèi zhè jiàn shì méi yǒu hòu huǐ yào.You need to think it over, because there's no turning back on this.
- ，后悔药。Tā hòu huǐ le, dàn kě xī méi yǒu hòu huǐ yào kě yǐ chī.He regretted it, but unfortunately there's no regret medicine to take.
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