put it down to experience
to decide that instead of being upset about something bad that has happened or that you have done, you will learn from it:
Okay, so you made a mistake - you just have to put it down to experience and carry on with your life.
There's nothing we can do about it now, we'll just have to put it down to experience.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Learning & knowing
- assimilate
- autodidact
- blended learning
- bone up
- brain training
- by-heart
- deskill
- feel
- gen up
- hear tell (of) idiom
- know better (than sb) idiom
- knowable
- mug
- mug (sth) up
- pick sth up
- quick
- reskill
- revision
- specialize
- tell
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