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Live and learn
- Learn from experience and from your mistakes.
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]Example Sentences
Harris could just say: You live and learn.
"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.
“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.
“What can you do? You just have to live and learn life as you go along. There’s no point in dwelling on it.”
“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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