Everyday English
learn your lesson
change your behaviour after a bad experience
If you learn your lesson, you understand what went wrong and change your behaviour so it does not happen again.
Hear it in real life
Did you leave without checking the weather again?
No, I learned my lesson last time.
I learned my lesson and now I back up my files regularly.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I learned my lesson of leaving earlier.
Say: I learned my lesson about leaving earlier.
Use "about" to introduce the behaviour or problem connected with the lesson.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
learn your lesson; have learned your lesson; learn my lesson
Your turn: say it out loud
I learned my lesson and now I back up my files regularly.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
learn your lesson
change your behaviour after a bad experience
“I learned my lesson and now I back up my files regularly.”
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