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I Live Learn Idiom Learned Experience Surprising Unpleasant

Phrase/Idiom live and learn
Definition This idiom is used to say that one has learned something from an experience that is surprising and usually unpleasant.
Example I thought I could trust her, but it turned out that I was wrong. Live and learn!

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