get your fingers burnt Idiom
A burnt child dreads the fire.
A bad experience will make people stay away from certain things.
He who plays with fire gets burnt.
If you behave in a risky way, you are likely to have problems.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
A mistake can be a great teacher.
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A person who has suffered from doing something has learned to avoid doing it again.

A proverb.
Once Mary had got lost when her mother took her downtown. But a burnt child dreads the fire, so now Mary stays close to her mother when they are downtown.get (one's) fingers burned
To ache an abhorrent or annihilative aftereffect (especially the accident of money) for some action, generally such that one becomes afraid or afraid to do it again. During the bang times, endless ambitious investors put aggregate they endemic in adumbral advance deals, and best of them concluded up accepting their fingers abominably burned.Learn more: burn, finger, getget your ˈfingers burnt
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ache as a aftereffect of accomplishing article after acumen the accessible bad results, abnormally in business: She got her fingers burnt back she set up a business and had all her money baseborn by her partner.Learn more: burnt, finger, get