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Live and learn

  1. Learn from experience and from your mistakes.


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Idioms and Phrases

Profit from experience, as in I ignored the garden book, planted my beans in March, and they all rotted—live and learn . [Second half of 1500s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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