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
Dani (2)	-	Hungarian, Spanish
Ashtoreth	-	Biblical, Near Eastern Mythology
Berit	BE-rit (Swedish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Applewhite	['æplhwait]
Aziz	-	Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Uzbek
ŞErİF	-	Turkish