What do you mean, just three things

It means not to do the same thing three times in a row.

If a person makes a mistake, he can't make the same mistake again and again.

Things are only three [shù b ù gu ò sā n]: Chu Ming and Wu Cheng'en The Journey to the West 27 times: "As the saying goes,' things are only three'." If I don't go, I'm really a dirty and shameless person. It is often used to mean that the same thing cannot be repeated all the time.

Grammatical usage: as object and attribute; Used in spoken English.

Example of idiom: Taigong calls his daughter-in-law: "Only three things, it's better if someone doesn't come."

Extended data

It originated from the allusion of "once and for all, then decline and exhaustion" in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. "Nothing more than three things" is used to warn not to make the same mistake again; "Three defeats" is supported by historical allusions of the war between the two countries.

From the perspective of modern science, three is a stable number, and triangle is the most stable figure. The development and change of general things have their inherent laws, but there are only three things. In fact, the "three" here are all empty fingers, not real ones.