make one's bed and lie in it

Verb

make one's bed and lie in it (third-person singular simple present makes one's bed and lies in it, present participle making one's bed and lying in it, simple past made one's bed and lay in it, past participle made one's bed and lain in it)

1. (idiomatic) To create a difficult situation whose unpleasant consequences one must now endure.
   • It was true that he had made his own bed, and he understood the justice which required him to lie upon it.1861, Anthony Trollope, chapter 27, in Framley Parsonage
   • [...] 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.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 33”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC