make one's bed and lie in it

[make one's bed and lie in it] To be responsible for what you have done and so to have to accept the bad results.

* /Billy smoked one of his father's cigars and now he is sick. He made his bed, now let him lie in it./

Compare: FACE THE MUSIC(2).

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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