make your bed and lie in it

make your bed and lie in it
make your bed and lie in it
◇ Expressions like you've made your bed, and now you must lie in it mean that you have done something that causes problems and now you must accept and deal with those problems.

There's nothing we can do to help her. She's made her bed and has to lie in it.

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Main Entry:bed
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make your bed and lie in it — see bed, 1
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Main Entry:lie

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  • make one's bed and lie in it — be responsible for what one has done and then have to accept the bad results You quit your job and now you have no money. You made your bed. Now you must lie in it …   Idioms and examples

  • as you make your bed, so you must lie upon it — Cf. late 15th cent. Fr. comme on faict son lict, on le treuve, as one makes one’s bed, so one finds it. c 1590 G. HARVEY Marginalia (1913) 88 Lett them..go to there bed, as themselues shall make it. 1640 G. HERBERT Outlandish Proverbs no. 340 He… …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • bed — bed1 W1S1 [bed] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(sleep)¦ 2¦(sex)¦ 3¦(river/lake/sea)¦ 4¦(garden)¦ 5¦(rock)¦ 6¦(lowest layer)¦ 7¦(in river/water)¦ 8 get out of bed on the wrong side 9 not a bed of roses 10 you ve made your bed and you …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • bed — bedless, adj. bedlike, adj. /bed/, n., v., bedded, bedding. n. 1. a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well. 2. the mattress and bedclothes together with the bedstead of a bed. 3. the bedstead… …   Universalium

  • bed — 1 noun /bed/ 1 SLEEP (C, U) a piece of furniture for sleeping on: a spare bed | a double bed | in bed: Simon lay in bed reading for hours. | go to bed: In the end, she went to bed without any fuss. | make the bed (=tidy the bed covers) | put sb… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • bed — see early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise as you make your bed, so you must lie upon it there goes more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • lie — noun see a lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on ask no questions and hear no lies half the truth is often a whole lie verb see if you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas as you make your bed, so …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • make — see make hay while the sun shines as you make your bed, so you must lie upon it you cannot make bricks without straw clothes make the man make haste slowly if you don’t make mistakes you don’t make anything …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • Lie — Lie, v. i. [imp. {Lay} (l[=a]); p. p. {Lain} (l[=a]n), ({Lien} (l[imac] [e^]n), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lying}.] [OE. lien, liggen, AS. licgan; akin to D. liggen, OHG. ligen, licken, G. liegen, Icel. liggja, Sw. ligga, Dan. ligge, Goth. ligan,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lie — lie1 [ laı ] (present participle lying [ laııŋ ] ; past tense lay [ leı ] ; past participle lain [ leın ] ) verb intransitive *** ▸ 1 be/put yourself flat ▸ 2 be in place/on surface ▸ 3 in a competition ▸ 4 consist of ▸ 5 be in particular state ▸ …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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