live and learn

[live and learn] You learn more new things the longer you live; you learn by experience. — A proverb.

* /"Live and learn," said Mother. "I never knew that the Indians once had a camp where our house is."/

* /Janet made her new dress from cheap cloth, and when she washed it, it shrank and was too little. Live and learn./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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