bitter experience
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbitterandexperience
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bitter
adjective
uk/ˈbɪt.ər/us/ˈbɪt̬.ɚ/
Someone who is bitter is angry and unhappy because they cannot forget bad things that happened in ...
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experience
noun
uk/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/us/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition ofbitterandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They know frombitterexperiencethat politicians' promises of prosperity can easily evaporate into deepening poverty and widening income gaps.
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Years ofbitterexperiencehave taught us a skepticism about discussions of these topics.
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Long andbitterexperiencehas taught these people the dangerous haunts of the tsetses.
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Bitterexperiencehas taught our practice that large-scale schemes do throw up particular problems.
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I can say frombitterexperiencethat the clause went through a number of drafts before reaching its final form.
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Bitterexperiencehas taught us that we cannot successfully look too far ahead in energy matters.
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My constituents know frombitterexperiencehow the families and comrades of those two soldiers feel.
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There is no need to raise any prejudice; the bitterness is already there, owing to thebitterexperiencewhich workers in the countryside have suffered.
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The industry has learnt, frombitterexperience, to fear the artificial booms as much as they fear the artificial slumps.
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We welcome the two provisions, but we have learnt bybitterexperiencenot to take them too much at their face value.
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Bitterexperiencehas convinced the people of this country that that is a wise decision.
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We know frombitterexperiencethat the cotton textile industry is one of the most difficult export industries in the world.
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He should have learnt bybitterexperiencethat comradeship and confidence are all on one side.
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We know this frombitterexperiencewith other employment protection provisions.
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We have learnt bybitterexperiencein recent years that economic stagnation is no recipe for exchange rate stability.
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We have become so obsessed as a result ofbitterexperience.
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I speak with ratherbitterexperience, not unconnected with the trade in patent medicines.
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I hesitate to make that recommendation because of thebitterexperiencein my own life of what half-time labour means.
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Moreover, we now know frombitterexperiencethat the victors suffer equally with the vanquished.
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Yes, probably the vigilance of the inspection will prevent their returning, in addition to their ownbitterexperience.
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