Idiomatic and syntactic English dictionary:
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(fig.) the conditions in which one's character and knowledge of the world develop, as the hard school of experience.
Does that mean one's immature times? One's lack of experience?
anonymous What Does 'The Hard School Of Experience' Mean? It means the entire collection of unpleasant experiences that we learn from during our lives. Some people fall from a ladder poised on top of a chair poised on top of a table and break a leg or an arm.
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anonymous What Does 'The Hard School Of Experience' Mean?
It means the entire collection of unpleasant experiences that we learn from during our lives.
Some people fall from a ladder poised on top of a chair poised on top of a table and break a leg or an arm. They learn that it's safer to get a longer ladder than to place ladders on other objects.