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  Live and learn

  Learn from experience and from your mistakes.
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  live and learn

  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]

Live and learn

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1. Learn from experience and from your mistakes.

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live and learn Idioms  

1. 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]

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Live and learn framed the 13th-ranked Bruins’ 37-3 victory over UNLV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2015

Live and learn, and always always always focus on product updates earlier than you anticipate.

From Forbes ● Oct. 10, 2014

"Live and learn" is his motto; and he does both, but especially the former, in a way to excite the admiration of all disinterested observers.

From A Rambler's lease by Bradford Torrey

"Live and learn," they say, and there's nothing so thrue!

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

Live and learn, my friend, live and learn.

From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew

Harris could just say: You live and learn.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2024

"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.

From BBC ● May 11, 2024

“What can you do? You just have to live and learn life as you go along. There’s no point in dwelling on it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

When a flabbergasted Fox host, Dana Perino, pointed to Mr. Bolduc’s adamant statements before the primary, he shrugged: “You know, live and learn, right?”

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

I can only live and learn and perhaps learn to see how often I am mistaken.

From Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch by Michael Moukhanoff