put something down to experience
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[edit ]Verb
[edit ]put something down to experience (third-person singular simple present puts something down to experience , present participle putting something down to experience , simple past and past participle put something down to experience)
- Synonym of chalk something up to experience .
- 2016 June 9, Caroline Taggart, Her Ladyship's Guide to the Art of Conversation, Batsford Books, →ISBN:
- If something utterly dreadful happens to you, shrug it off, put it down to experience and, in due course, turn it into an anecdote.
- 2016 December 19, Sue Ostler, Sex, Dating and Really Confusing Girls, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:
- Put it down to experience and laugh about it over a pint with your mates. Celebrate it whether it's a car crash or not. Because even if you're smarting like hell, at least you know you're alive.