take one's lumps

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsget one's lumps

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Questions about take one's lumps

What does take one's lumps mean?

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

What is another word for take one's lumps?

Close synonyms include get 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 take one's lumps a common word?

take 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.