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What you get instead of what you wanted, usually too late to use it.
means Something you learn from study, experience, or instruction — often the hard way.
from From Old French 'leçon,' tracing back to Latin 'lectio' meaning 'a reading' — the act of reading aloud, which is how lessons were originally delivered: a text read out to be absorbed. The same Latin root, 'legere' (to read, to gather), also gives us 'lecture' and 'legible' — so a lesson was literally 'that which is read to you,' long before it became 'that which life makes you sit through.'
- etymology
- from latin legere, to read aloud
- disguise
- often just a mistake with better PR
- shelf life
- learned repeatedly, applied rarely