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sadder but wiser
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Idioms and Phrases
Unhappy but having learned from one's mistakes, as in Sadder but wiser, she's never going near poison ivy again . The pairing of these two adjectives was first recorded in Samuel Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).Discover More
Example Sentences
I even present some statistical evidence for this cycle of unpleasant shocks followed by sadder-but-wiser recoveries.
From The Daily Beast
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