make one's own bedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

to make one's (own) bed (and lie in it)

1. (idiomatic) To create a difficult situation whose unpleasant consequences one must now endure.
   • 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage, ch. 27:

     It was true that he had made his own bed, and he understood the justice which required him to lie upon it.

   • 1949, Upton Sinclair, O Shepherd, Speak! Part I (reprinted 2001), ISBN 9781931313100, p. 120:

     Harry said, "It's too bad, but of course we couldn't attempt to smuggle him. The old man has made his bed and he must lie in it."

   • 2005 Nov. 26, Bob Kropfli, "Letters: Second-Term Blues," Time:

     What has happened is that all the horrible moves he made during his first term . . . are perfectly evident to all. Bush made his bed during his first four years, and now he has to lie in it.

   • 2008 Aug. 21, Steven Erlanger, "Europe Grows Impatient as Delays Pile Up in Georgia," New York Times (retrieved 27 June 2011):

     “Saakashvili made his own bed,” said Nick Witney, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Affairs and the former chief executive of the European Defense Agency. “It was a pretty catastrophic miscalculation.”

   • 2010, Arlynn Leiber Presser, Blue-Jeaned Prince, ISBN 9780759298736, p. 149:

     He had made his own bed, chosen his own course in life, taking the path of easy money over hard work and initiative.

関連する語

• you make the bed you lie in