Russian translation
Ты постелил свою кровать, тебе на ней и спать.
Каждый должен нести ответственность за свои поступки.
Derivation
To lie on the bed one hs made.
Variation
As you make your bed so you must lie on it.
Synonyms
As a man shows, so shall he reap.
As you brew, so must you drink.
As a man lives, so shall he die.
Comparison
Как постелишь, так и поспишь.
Посеешь лукошко, так и пожнешь немножко.
Что посеешь, то и пожнешь.
Examples
My self-pity was at that time valuable, for it kept hope alive. Had I sturdily said to myself, "
You have made your bed and you must lie on it, serve you right", I should have accepted this as the last word on the subject and have sunk into despair. (Johnson)
And then rather illogically, she added, "I'd rather like someone to go and see her, anyway. I couldn't possibly bear it myself. But I did hear from Robin, who'd got it from those relations of Marie Helene's, that she had a sort of stroke after Christmas. Of course,
she's made her bed and she's got to lie on it. But all the same. it would be rather good to get a first-hand account from someone dependable." (Wilson)
This was the way I brought myself to think, Mother, that my best amends was
to lie upon that bed I had made, and die upon it. (Dickens)
"Perhaps we can cancel the flat. We could go to the Connaught." "We will not cancel anything.
If you have made our bed we shall lie on it, even if it is in the middle of a nest of vipers." (Johnson)
"I have no interest in politics," he said with finality. "there is nothing I can do to help Abner Moody. I feel sorry for him, but
he made his own bed. Of course I'm sorry my father did what he did and I think it stinks - setting a father against his own son, but there was nothing I could do about it." (Upshow)
The garden at Vale View was a patch of tender colours which the miners often stopped to admire on their way back from their shift. Chiefly these colours came from flowering shrubs which Christine had planted the previous autumn, for now Andrew would allow her to do no heavy work at all. "
You've made the place!" he told her, with authority. "
Now sit in it." (Cronin)
From that moment I date the beginning of my career; and, unlike Lot's wife, I have never looked back. There have been ups and downs... ups and downs. The ups are a matter of European history. The downs I prefer not to remember. Well, well. As the proverbial Irishman said,
I have put my hand to the plough and now I must lie on it. (Isherwood
