Unhappy but having learned from one's mistakes or a difficult experience.
Examples:
- Sadder but wiser, she's never going near poison ivy again.
Origin: First recorded in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
Unhappy but having learned from one's mistakes or a difficult experience.
Examples:
Origin: First recorded in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)