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lime lesson

lime lesson is the deliberate misspelling of life lesson.

Meaning of life lesson

Noun

life lesson (plural life lessons)

  1. (set phrase) Advice from another person or information derived from experience that provides valuable long-term guidance for one's future decisions and conduct in life.
    • The mother . . . had high views for her daughter. . . . [A]bove them stood many millionaire families, living in palace-homes, and through her daughter she meant to rise into one of them. It mattered not for the personal quality of the scion of the house; he might be as coarse and common as his...1872, T. S. Arthur, chapter 1, in Cast Adrift

Forms of lime lesson

plurallime lessons

Origin of lime lesson

From Ice Cream, the 47th episode of the second season of the Australian preschool TV series Bluey (2018), in which the protagonist Bluey Heeler ostensibly mispronounces life lesson as lime lesson (but the episode's subtitles do not indicate this).

Questions about lime lesson

What is lime lesson the deliberate misspelling of?
Lime lesson is the deliberate misspelling of life lesson.

Words near lime lesson in the dictionary

  1. lime greens
  2. lime juice
  3. lime juices
  4. lime kiln
  5. lime kilns
  6. lime lesson
  7. lime lessons
  8. lime mortar
  9. lime mortars
  10. lime pit
  11. lime pits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lime lesson (page history and authors); life lesson (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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