sadder and/but wiser
sadder and/but wiser
Enlightened by an unfortunate experience; learning from one’s mistakes. The pairing of these two thoughts appears in the concluding stanza of Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1798): “He went like one that hath been stunned,/And is of sense forlorn:/A sadder and a wiser man,/He rose the morrow morn.”
See also: and, but, sad, wiser
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
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- Say it ain't so, Joe
- Say it ain't so, Joe!
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- stanza
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- albatross around one's neck
- albatross round someone's neck
- an albatross around your neck
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