24 phrases found for the topic Experience
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Phrase: Learn the hard way
Meaning: The first time you do something, the results may not be the expected ones because you lack experience, so you learn the hard way: I learnt the hard way that people here always haggle over the price of anything.
Date: 21-09-2017
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Phrase: Teach somebody a lesson
Meaning: Make sure someone gets what he or she deserves so that he or she will never do it again: Corrupt politicians should be taught a lesson by not voting for them any more.
Date: 24-07-2015
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Phrase: Learn your lesson
Meaning: You did something wrong, and now you regret it, so you will not do it again: I had a car accident because I had been driving very fast, but I learnt my lesson.
Date: 24-07-2015
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Phrase: A bitter pill (for someone) to swallow
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Phrase: A burnt child dreads the fire
Sent by Anuradha Rao
Email: anu919@hotmail.com
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Phrase: A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read
Author: Mark Twain
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Phrase: A lot of water has flowed (or passed) under the bridge since then
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Phrase: Be a fly on the wall
Meaning: In order to find out something or see something
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Phrase: Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school
Author: Albert Einstein
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Phrase: Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler
Author: Albert Einstein
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Phrase: Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald
Sent by Venu Desaraju
Email: venu@botsnet.bw
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Phrase: I think, therefore I am
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Phrase: Look before you leap
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Phrase: Reinvent the wheel
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Phrase: The blind leading the blind
Meaning: This is used when someone who does not know much about something is trying to teach or advise someone who knows even less.
Example:
They want me to teach maths, because the maths teacher is ill in bed, but that will be the blind leading the blind. I am completely useless at maths.
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Phrase: The exception that proves the rule
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Phrase: The only source of knowledge is experience
Author: Albert Einstein
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Phrase: Water under the bridge / That's all water under the bridge / A lot of water has flowed under the bridge
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Phrase: What goes up must come down
Meaning: Example: The volcano erupted throwing a lot of debris into the sky, and you know what goes up must come down.
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Phrase: What is done cannot be undone
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Phrase: What we each believe, it ain't necessarily so
Author: Melville Barrant
Sent by Melville Barrant
Email: melgranor@sympatico.ca
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Phrase: What you see is what you see
Sent by Kim
Email: kimc22@netzero.net
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Phrase: You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else
Author: Albert Einstein
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Phrase: You sleep with skunks, you smell like skunks
Sent by Stacy Lewis
Email: stacyl@email.uophx.edu
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