Word details
타산지석
- Pronunciation
- 타산지석
- Part of speech
- noun
- Vocabulary level
- advanced
- Application
- 타산지석이 [타산지서기 ]
타선지석도 [타산지석또 ]
타산지석만 [타산지성만 ]
learning from someone else's mistakes; lesson from someone else's failures
(figurative) An idiom implying that even someone's bad attitude or misbehavior can help one to think twice and correct one's own behavior or mind.