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Learn Hard Experience Advice Guidance Refusal Accept Meant

Phrase/Idiom learn the hard way
Definition If you learn the hard way, you learn through your own experience, rather than from the advice or guidance of others.
Example Her refusal to accept my help meant that she had to learn the hard way.

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