learn a/ lesson

learn a/your lesson

to understand something because of an unpleasant experience We learned a lesson from last year's failure to reform health care. You hope that prisoners will say, “I don't want to end up back in jail again – I've learned my lesson.”

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Nieve	-	Spanish
Taliba	-	Arabic
Laurinda	[lɔ'rində]
Delia (1)	DEEL-ee-ə (English), DEEL-yə (English), DEL-yah (Italian, Spanish)	English, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Greek Mythology
Nana	[nænə]
Hillman	['hilmən]