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
Agata	ah-GAH-tah (Italian, Spanish, Polish)	Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Slovene, Russian, Croatian, Serbian
Meadows	[medəuz]
NguyÊN	-	Vietnamese
Gebahard	-	Ancient Germanic
Celestine	['selistin]
Ingolf	ING-gawlf (German)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German