burn your fingers | get your ˈfingers burnt
to suffer as a result of doing sth without realizing the possible bad results, especially in business :
He got his fingers badly burnt dabbling in the stock market.
burn your fingers | get your ˈfingers burnt
to suffer as a result of doing sth without realizing the possible bad results, especially in business :
He got his fingers badly burnt dabbling in the stock market.
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005