Idiom
make one's bed and lie in it
Meaning
To create a difficult situation whose unpleasant consequences one must now endure.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You made your bed and now you must lie in it.”
“He ignored all the safety warnings, so now he has made his bed and must lie in it.”
“Having recklessly gambled away his family inheritance, he found he had made his bed and was now forced to lie in it.”
Examples
simple
“You made your bed and now you must lie in it.”
contextual
“He ignored all the safety warnings, so now he has made his bed and must lie in it.”
complex
“Having recklessly gambled away his family inheritance, he found he had made his bed and was now forced to lie in it.”
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