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
Shipley	['ʃipli]
Aramis	-	Literature
Steinn	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Phyllis	['filis]
Ezar	-	Biblical
Marcio	MAHR-thyo (Spanish), MAHR-syo (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish