Meaning
learning from someone else's mistakes; lesson from someone else's failures — (figurative) An idiom implying that even someone's bad attitude or misbehavior can help one to think twice and correct one's own behavior or mind.
learning from someone else's mistakes; lesson from someone else's failures — (figurative) An idiom implying that even someone's bad attitude or misbehavior can help one to think twice and correct one's own behavior or mind.