take one's lumps
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
suffer the results or consequences of one's behavior or actions
MWE
Classifications
Cognitive
Understand75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Variants
- synonym
- get one's lumps
- pasttense
- taked one's lumpstook one's lumps
- presentparticiple
- taking one's lumps
- thirdpersonsingular
- takes one's lumps
- pastparticiple
- taked one's lumpstaken one's lumps