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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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Harris could just say: You live and learn.

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"I'd say there were a few tactical errors but you live and learn," said the 19-year-old, who will continue to chase the European 1500m standard in the coming weeks.

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“The piece that we have to live and learn from is these games in the playoffs are won in one moment,” interim coach Becki Tweed said.

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“What can you do? You just have to live and learn life as you go along. There’s no point in dwelling on it.”

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“We’re representing the league, we’re representing the city of Phoenix, our organization and in times like that we don’t want to cause a big scene. we don’t to like throw phones or say some things. I guess the lesson is you live and learn but I don’t know what you do if it happens again.”

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

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