The rookie kept shanking it during practice, sending balls off the tee into the rough.

I shanked it into the rough on the final hole and lost the tournament.

When our neighbors organized tutoring and babysitting, we were reminded that it takes a village.

By making one's bed and lying in it, she showed she accepted the results of her choices.

When one has made one's bed and lain in it, one must accept the consequences.

If one makes one's bed and lies in it, one should accept the consequences with dignity.

When one made one's bed and lay in it, one could no longer complain about the outcome.

She gently breaks it to him that the project has been canceled.

By the end of the meeting he had grinned and borne it, though every comment stung.

Whenever the meeting goes off-track, he grins and bears it to avoid causing a scene.