get one's lumps

1. 1.

   suffer the results or consequences of one's behavior or actions

   Synonymstake one's lumps

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Questions about get one's lumps

What does get one's lumps mean?

get one's lumps means "suffer the results or consequences of one's behavior or actions".

What is another word for get one's lumps?

Close synonyms include take one's lumps. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is get one's lumps a common word?

get one's lumps is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.