have (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 into shady investment deals, and most of them ended up having their fingers burned.

词组	have (one's) fingers burned
释义	have (one's) fingers burned have (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 into shady investment deals, and most of them ended up having their fingers burned. See also: burn, finger, have Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: burn (one's) fingers burn one's fingers burn your fingers get (one's) fingers burned get fingers burned get your fingers burned get your fingers burnt come to a bad end come to a bad/sticky end here we go again
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