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The school of hard knocks 

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To learn something the hard way (by experience)
Idiom

The problem with you is that you've been spoiled your whole life. You haven't had gone through the school of hard knocks to teach you what the world is really like!

I didn't go to college, but I went to the school of hard knocks. I learned everything by experience.

Synonym: The university of life
The school of hard knocks by Zami Karzai September 14, 2018
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