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live and learn

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live and learn
Cliché to increase one's knowledge by experience. (Usually said when one is surprised to learn something.) I didn't know that snakes could swim. Well, live and learn! John didn't know he should water his house-plants a little extra in the dry winter months. When they all died, he said, "Live and learn."
See also: and, learn, live
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A quiet, happy place--a place to live and learn to die in
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
But we live and learn, and in our present task we must take no chance, as my friend Quincey would say.
Dracula by Stoker, Bram View in context
But it's a sex to live and learn from, and there's nothing a lady can't accomplish when she once fully gives her mind to it.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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