Sentence examples for a bitter lesson from inspiring English sources

'a bitter lesson' is an idiomatic expression that is used in written English.
It is used to refer to a lesson that has been learned through difficult or unpleasant experiences. For example: "After the incident, he was left with a bitter lesson about the consequences of his actions."

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Fund managers are learning a bitter lesson.

That was a bitter lesson.

There's a bitter lesson here for Panama.

"We learned a bitter lesson in 1997".

But he said he had learned a bitter lesson.

It was a bitter lesson to impart to my daughter.

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"When I returned to my country I began to learn a very bitter lesson.

It is a hard, bitter lesson for most senators and governors and celebrity candidates to learn that history is full of accidents and coincidence and happenstance and contains very few masters of fate.

Kenyans have had a very bitter lesson.

This is a really bitter lesson.

This is the bitter lesson that Jacky Jin, a founder of a small internet company in Shanghai and a group of more than 20 fellow mainland Chinese millionaires learned, to great financial distress.

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