get one's fingers burnt (English, verb)
expansion: get one's fingers burnt (third-person singular simple present gets one's fingers burnt, present participle getting one's fingers burnt, simple past got one's fingers burnt, past participle (UK) got one's fingers burnt or (US) gotten one's fingers burnt)
Senses:
glosses: To suffer relatively minor, adversive, and unexpected harm.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: gets one's fingers burnt
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: getting one's fingers burnt
tags: participle
present
form: got one's fingers burnt
tags: past
form: got one's fingers burnt
tags: UK
participle
past
form: gotten one's fingers burnt
tags: US
participle
past