you've made your bed, now lie in it
Meaning: You must accept the consequences of your own choices.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Example: “You bought the car without checking it; you've made your bed, now lie in it.”
Category: Daily Life
Origin: A bed badly made is still the one you have to sleep in. The proverb is recorded in English from the 16th century.
Equivalents in other languages
- Turkish: Ayıkla pirincin taşını — literally: Pick the stones out of the rice
More idioms — Daily Life
- an uphill battle — A long, difficult struggle.
- Pédaler dans la semoule — To be confused and getting nowhere.
- Avoir d'autres chats à fouetter — To have more important things to do.
- Avoir le cul entre deux chaises — To be indecisive, caught between two options.
- Les carottes sont cuites — It's too late, nothing can be done.
- Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof — I don't understand anything at all.
More English idioms
- be put out to pasture — To be retired or set aside as no longer useful.
- The last straw that broke the camel's back — The final small burden that causes a total collapse.
- To have a frog in your throat — To have difficulty speaking due to hoarseness.
- It's raining cats and dogs — It's raining extremely heavily.
- To have butterflies in your stomach — To feel nervous excitement.
- Bob's your uncle — And there you have it; simple as that.
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