make bed

make one's (own) bed

1. Lit. to restore order to the bedclothes on one's own bed. Jimmy, you are old enough to make your own bed.

2. Fig. to be the cause of one's own misery. Well, I guess I made my own bed. Now I have to lie in it. "We all make our own beds," said the minister.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Anshel	-	Yiddish
Charlot	shar-LO	French
Valerius	və-LER-ee-əs (English)	Ancient Roman
Garnett	['ga:nit]
Minerva	[mi'nə:və]
Teodora	te-o-DAW-rah (Italian), te-o-DHO-rah (Spanish), te-aw-DAW-rah (Polish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Romanian, Polish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian