what does take one’s lumps mean?
TAKE ONE’S LUMPS as VERB
- Meaning
- suffer the results or consequences of one’’s behavior or actions
Synonym(s)
Hypernyms(s) take one’s lumps is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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