you make the bed you lie in

English

Proverb

you make the bed you lie in

1. A person's circumstances are normally the result of his or her own actions.

Related terms

• make one's bed and lie in it

Translations

a person's circumstances are normally the result of his or her own actions

• Finnish: niin makaat kuin petaat
• Hungarian: ki mint veti ágyát, úgy alussza álmát (hu)
• Korean: 자업자득 (ko) (自業自得, ja-eob-ja-deug)
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• Russian: как посте́лешь, так и поспи́шь (kak postélešʹ, tak i pospíšʹ), сам завари́л, сам и ку́шай (sam zavaríl, sam i kúšaj) (you cooked it yourself, so eat it yourself)
• Swedish: som man bäddar får man ligga