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as you make your bed, so you must lie in it

as you make your bed, so you must lie in it proverb: one will carry negative consequences of one's previous action(s).

Proverb

as you make your bed, so you must lie in it

  1. One will carry negative consequences of one's previous action(s).
    • The old women say to their daughters: "as you make your bed so you must lie in it;" and the same may we say to the ministers. They took to the Pitt inheritance without any complaint; and the people have a right to demand of them a complete responsibility for all the mischief that shall happen.1806, Cobbett's Political Register, page 527
    • […][A]s you make your bed, so you must lie in it. The Lord can't be expected to let those prosper that forget Him. What mercy would it be to you if He did let you prosper by setting snares all church-time, as you were last Sunday, instead of going to church?1899, Charles Kingsley, The Works of Charles Kingsley...: Yeast. Poems, page 132

Questions about as you make your bed, so you must lie in it

What does as you make your bed, so you must lie in it mean?
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it means one will carry negative consequences of one's previous action(s).
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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it is a proverb.

Words near as you make your bed, so you must lie in it in the dictionary

  1. as you do
  2. as you go
  3. as you have brewed, so you must drink
  4. as you know
  5. as you like
  6. as you make your bed, so you must lie in it
  7. as you please
  8. as you sow, so shall you reap
  9. as you were
  10. as you wish
  11. as't

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