learn your lesson

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to learn what to do or not to do in the future because you have had a bad experience in the past

   Because victory was yours, you failed to learn your lesson 20 years ago.

   Well, Ladislav I certainly hope you learn your lesson.

In the movies · 12

• Because victory was yours, you failed to learn your lesson 20 years ago.The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943
• -[gasps] -[Papaw screaming in pain]Hillbilly Elegy2020
• Well, I hope you learned your lesson for today.Minions2015
• Well, Ladislav I certainly hope you learn your lesson.She Loves Me2016

Learn it in full scenes

• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943
  • War Starts at Midnight
  • The Home Guard Exercise Turns Real
  • General Wynne-Candy Is Taken Prisoner
• Minions2015
  • Minions Can't Keep a Boss
  • Kevin Volunteers to Find a New Master
  • Minions Wreck a Department Store

From the same entry

• learn the hard way
• know to your cost
• you live and learn
• show the ropes

More idioms

• turn a blind eye
• like hell
• out of your way
• cut to the chase
• to myself
• hold it
• on television
• in the distance
• be on the telephone
• more like
• be sick
• face to face with