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Fingers Burned Experience Unwanted Unpleasant Results Action Invested

Idiom to get your fingers burned
Definition to experience unwanted or unpleasant results to a course of action
Examples - She invested all her money in a small internet company and really got her fingers burned when it closed down.
- Don't worry. I'm not going to do it again. I got my fingers burned once already.
- Having had her fingers burned once by her war correspondent partner, she's determined never to fall in love again.

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