- learn lesson
- learn (your) lesson
to learn something useful about life from an unpleasant experience.
I'm never going to mix my drinks again - I've learnt my lesson.
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learn lesson — learn a/(your) lesson to understand something because of an unpleasant experience. We learned a lesson from last year s failure to reform health care. You hope that prisoners will say, “I don t want to end up back in jail again – I ve learned my… … New idioms dictionary
learn — W1S1 [lə:n US lə:rn] v past tense and past participle learned or learnt [lə:nt US lə:rnt] especially BrE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(subject/skill)¦ 2¦(find out)¦ 3¦(remember)¦ 4¦(change your behaviour)¦ 5 somebody has learned their lesson 6 learn (something) the … Dictionary of contemporary English
learn your lesson — phrase to be unlikely to do something stupid or wrong again, because the last time you did it something unpleasant happened Thesaurus: to understand something or someone in a particular waysynonym Main entry: learn * * * learn your ˈlesson idiom… … Useful english dictionary
learn your lesson — learn (your) lesson to learn something useful about life from an unpleasant experience. I m never going to mix my drinks again I ve learnt my lesson … New idioms dictionary
learn a lesson — learn a/(your) lesson to understand something because of an unpleasant experience. We learned a lesson from last year s failure to reform health care. You hope that prisoners will say, “I don t want to end up back in jail again – I ve learned my… … New idioms dictionary
learn your lesson — learn a/(your) lesson to understand something because of an unpleasant experience. We learned a lesson from last year s failure to reform health care. You hope that prisoners will say, “I don t want to end up back in jail again – I ve learned my… … New idioms dictionary
learn — [ lɜrn ] (past tense and past participle learned [ lɜrnt ] ) verb *** 1. ) intransitive or transitive to gain knowledge or experience of something, for example by being taught: a bright girl who is already learning the alphabet research into how… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
Learn — (l[ e]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Learned} (l[ e]rnd), or {Learnt} (l[ e]rnt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Learning}.] [OE. lernen, leornen, AS. leornian; akin to OS. lin[=o]n, for lirn[=o]n, OHG. lirn[=e]n, lern[=e]n, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l[=ae]ran … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
learn a lesson from — index profit Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
lesson — [les′ən] n. [ME lessoun < OFr leçon < L lectio, a reading, hence text, lesson < pp. of legere, to read: see LOGIC] 1. something to be learned; specif., a) an exercise or assignment that a student is to prepare or learn within a given… … English World dictionary
