School of Hard Knocks
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School of Hard Knocks
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The School of Hard Knocks is an idiomatic phrase meaning the education one gets from life's usually negative experiences, often contrasted with formal education. The term originated in the United States; its earliest documented use was in 1870 in the book The Men Who Advertise: It is a phrase which is most typically used by a person to claim a level of wisdom imparted by life experience, which should be considered at least equal in merit to academic knowledge. It is a response that may be given
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Idiomatic phrase, the informal education from negative experiences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Hard_Knocks
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2023-09-05T03:53:16Z
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