"make one's bed and lie in it" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1861, Anthony Trollope, chapter 27, in Framley Parsonage:",
          "text": "It was true that he had made his own bed, and he understood the justice which required him to lie upon it.",
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          "ref": "1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 33”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "[...] one of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly.",
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          "ref": "1949, Upton Sinclair, O Shepherd, Speak! Part I, reprinted, published 2001, →ISBN, page 120:",
          "text": "Harry said, \"It's too bad, but of course we couldn't attempt to smuggle him. The old man has made his bed and he must lie in it.\"",
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          "ref": "2005 November 26, Bob Kropfli, “Letters: Second-Term Blues”, in Time:",
          "text": "What has happened is that all the horrible moves he made during his first term . . . are perfectly evident to all. Bush made his bed during his first four years, and now he has to lie in it.",
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          "ref": "2008 August 21, Steven Erlanger, “Europe Grows Impatient as Delays Pile Up in Georgia”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-06-27:",
          "text": "“Saakashvili made his own bed,” said Nick Witney, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Affairs and the former chief executive of the European Defense Agency. “It was a pretty catastrophic miscalculation.”",
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          "ref": "2010, Arlynn Leiber Presser, Blue-Jeaned Prince, →ISBN, page 149:",
          "text": "He had made his own bed, chosen his own course in life, taking the path of easy money over hard work and initiative.",
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        "To create a difficult situation whose unpleasant consequences one must now endure."
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        "(idiomatic) To create a difficult situation whose unpleasant consequences one must now endure."
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          "word": "as you make your bed, so you must lie in it"
        },
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          "word": "you make the bed you lie in"
        },
        {
          "word": "bring one's own hide to market"
        },
        {
          "word": "reap what one sows"
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          "word": "stew in one's juices"
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          "word": "make one's own bed and lie in it"
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        {
          "word": "make one's bed"
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        {
          "word": "make one's own bed"
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        {
          "word": "make one's bed and sleep in it"
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          "word": "make the bed one lies in"
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          "code": "hak",
          "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "自家屙屎自家食"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "note": "自作自受 (zìzuòzìshòu, literally “you must bear what you made for yourself”)",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "kiehua omassa liemessään"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "niin makaat kuin petaat"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "comme on fait son lit, on se couche"
        },
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "ki mint veti ágyát, úgy alussza álmát"
        },
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "hai voluto la bicicletta? adesso pedala"
        },
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "hai voluto la bicicletta e adesso pedala"
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        {
          "alt": "じごうじとく",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "jigōjitouku",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "自業自得"
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          "alt": "自業自得",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "ja'eopjadeuk",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "자업자득"
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          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "kaip pasiklosi, taip išmiegosi"
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          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "kad prisivirei košės, tai ir srėbk"
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          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "som man reder, så ligger man"
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          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "nawarzyć piwa"
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          "roman": "kak postélešʹ, tak i pospíšʹ",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "как посте́лешь, так и поспи́шь"
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          "note": "сам испёк, сам и ку́шай (sam ispjók, sam i kúšaj, literally “you baked it, so eat it yourself”)",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
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          "note": "сам завари́л ка́шу, сам и расхлёбывай (sam zavaríl kášu, sam i rasxljóbyvaj, literally “you cooked the kasha, you eat it”)",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences"
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          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "quien mala cama hace en ella se yace"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "a lo hecho, pecho"
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          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "som man bäddar får man ligga"
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "den som sig i leken ger, får leken tåla"
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          "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
          "word": "kendin ettin, kendin buldun"
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      "word": "as you make your bed, so you must lie in it"
    },
    {
      "word": "you make the bed you lie in"
    },
    {
      "word": "bring one's own hide to market"
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    {
      "word": "reap what one sows"
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    {
      "word": "make one's bed and sleep in it"
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    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "自家屙屎自家食"
    },
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "note": "自作自受 (zìzuòzìshòu, literally “you must bear what you made for yourself”)",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "kiehua omassa liemessään"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "niin makaat kuin petaat"
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "comme on fait son lit, on se couche"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "ki mint veti ágyát, úgy alussza álmát"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "hai voluto la bicicletta? adesso pedala"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "hai voluto la bicicletta e adesso pedala"
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    {
      "alt": "じごうじとく",
      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "jigōjitouku",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "自業自得"
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      "alt": "自業自得",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "ja'eopjadeuk",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "자업자득"
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      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "kaip pasiklosi, taip išmiegosi"
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      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "kad prisivirei košės, tai ir srėbk"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "som man reder, så ligger man"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "nawarzyć piwa"
    },
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kak postélešʹ, tak i pospíšʹ",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "как посте́лешь, так и поспи́шь"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "сам испёк, сам и ку́шай (sam ispjók, sam i kúšaj, literally “you baked it, so eat it yourself”)",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "сам завари́л ка́шу, сам и расхлёбывай (sam zavaríl kášu, sam i rasxljóbyvaj, literally “you cooked the kasha, you eat it”)",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "quien mala cama hace en ella se yace"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "a lo hecho, pecho"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "som man bäddar får man ligga"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "den som sig i leken ger, får leken tåla"
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to create a difficult situation and endure unpleasant consequences",
      "word": "kendin ettin, kendin buldun"
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  "word": "make one's bed and lie in it"
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