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
Artemio	-	Italian, Spanish
Tanesha	tə-NEE-shə	African American
Ludovico	loo-do-VEE-ko	Italian
Thekla	-	German (Rare), Greek (Rare), Late Greek
Nikodemos	-	Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek
Rani (1)	-	Indian, Telugu, Hindi, Marathi