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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." How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A quiet, happy place--a place to live and learn to die in But we live and learn, and in our present task we must take no chance, as my friend Quincey would say. 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. |
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