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

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You must put up with the unpleasant results of a foolish action or decision: We disapprove of the young man our daughter is living with, and I told her not to come running home to us if he treats her badly. "As you make your bed, so you must lie in it," I said. The proverb was first recorded, with different wording, c. 1590. A similar proverb was recorded in French a century earlier: "Comme on faict son lict, on le treuve [As one makes one's bed, so one finds it]."

Variant of this proverb: you've made your bed, now lie in it.

Proverb expressing similar meaning: as you brew so shall you drink.

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