二の舞

repeating someone else’s mistake; the same mistake

noun Rare #41,640

repeating someone else’s mistake; the same mistake Usually used in the expression 二の舞を演じる, meaning “to repeat someone else’s mistake.”

JA: 同じ失敗をして、先輩の二の舞を演じてしまった。

EN: I made the same mistake and ended up repeating my senior’s mistake.

So what are you going to do—end up like Bob?

— Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)

I understand all too well that you don’t want to end up like your father…

— フィールド・オブ・ドリームス (1989)

What does Father have to do with me ending up just like my old man?

— フィールド・オブ・ドリームス (1989)

Do you want us to suffer the same fate as Pejite?

— 風の谷のナウシカ (1984)