get your fingers burned

get (one's) fingers burned

To suffer an unpleasant or ruinous consequence (especially the loss of money) for some action, often such that one becomes unwilling or reluctant to do it again. During the boom times, countless would-be investors put everything they owned in shady investment deals, and most of them ended up getting their fingers badly burned.

get your fingers burned

burn your fingers

COMMON If you get your fingers burned or burn your fingers when you try do something, it goes wrong, and there are very unpleasant consequences for you. Unfortunately many people got their fingers burned when the Web phenomenon burst onto the scene. Foreign investors have a long history of burning their fingers when they try their hand at making Hollywood movies.

词组	get your fingers burned
释义	get your fingers burned get (one's) fingers burned To suffer an unpleasant or ruinous consequence (especially the loss of money) for some action, often such that one becomes unwilling or reluctant to do it again. During the boom times, countless would-be investors put everything they owned in shady investment deals, and most of them ended up getting their fingers badly burned. See also: burn, finger, get Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. get your fingers burned or burn your fingers COMMON If you get your fingers burned or burn your fingers when you try do something, it goes wrong, and there are very unpleasant consequences for you. Unfortunately many people got their fingers burned when the Web phenomenon burst onto the scene. Foreign investors have a long history of burning their fingers when they try their hand at making Hollywood movies. See also: burn, finger, get Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. See also: burn (one's) fingers burn one's fingers burn your fingers get (one's) fingers burned get fingers burned get your fingers burnt have (one's) fingers burned come to a bad end come to a bad/sticky end here we go again
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