bitter lesson
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbitterandlesson
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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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lesson
noun[C]
uk/ˈles.ən/us/ˈles.ən/
a period of time in which a person is taught about a subject or how to ...
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(Definition ofbitterandlessonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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She has learned abitterlesson.
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But we have learnt abitterlesson.
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In the main, the members of the group are immigrant workers who have learnt thebitterlessonof having to fight for trade union recognition.
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Surely we have learned in this country thebitterlessonof what negotiation from weakness means, the ghastly alternatives of capitulation or war.
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History has taught us abitterlessonin what racial hatred and intolerance can do.
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Perhaps it is abitterlessonwhich will be learned by those on the benches opposite who are still capable of learning from experience.
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Such people may have learnt thebitterlessonof experience.
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If that was true then, certainly they have learned abitterlessonnow.
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They will learn abitterlessonfrom that.
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For some clubs this has, sadly, been abitterlessonto learn.
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We learnt thatbitterlessonover the capital allowances for industry.
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I think that all countries in the free world have already learned thebitterlessonthat sovereignty is not enough.
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We have had abitterlessonto learn in the past eight or nine years.
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Thebitterlessonis being learned.
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They have learned by many abitterlessonthat the revolt of the minority against what they believe to be an injustice is always doomed to failure.
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America has learned herbitterlesson.
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Things do not go quite his way, and he ends up learning abitterlesson.
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Our conduct of blockade during this war shows that some at least of the bitter lessons of the last war have been learned.
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We have learned many bitter lessons as to remedies that are no true remedies.
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Perhaps we could all learn some rather bitter lessons from the past.
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