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Should've known better
Meaning
- An admission that you made a mistake you were experienced enough to avoid. It is a moment of hindsight regret.
Regretful, humble
Used in a sentence
- I should have known better than to trust that shady mechanic.
- I should have known better and brought an umbrella today.
- She sighed and said she should have known better than to ask him for help.
The backstory
A classic idiomatic expression of wisdom gained after a failure. It highlights the gap between knowing the right thing and actually doing it.
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