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早知今日何必当初

zǎo zhī jīn rì hé bì dāng chū

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Definitions

  1. 1. if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom)
  2. 2. to regret vainly one's past behavior