Meanings
plural lime lessons
- deliberatehumorousmisspellingBluey fandom slangDeliberate misspelling of life lesson.
Bluey does get a lime lesson eventually!
2022 January 20, blueypodcast, Twitter4 more examples
Bandit: "It's not my fault they melted; you took too long to eat 'em." Bluey: "So we get... nothing?" Bandit: "Well, you get a valuable life lesson." Bluey: "I don't want a valuable lime lesson. I just want an ice cream."
2020 November 14, Joe Brumm, “Ice Cream”, in Bluey, season 2, episode 47after the lime lesson i've acknowledged what you can do for others😌 im ready for your candy making class 🙇🏻♀️
2021 January 2, jenos__tinker, TwitterGastrology Today: Uranus is associated with the development of peach's individuality. Let this be a lime lesson.
2022 November 17, TinkerHeartFarm, TwitterMost lime lessons I've learned were because of desire to improve in fighting games or art & couple of the most important ones were: Your improvement is only relative to you. Knowing why you do stuff is more important than mechanizing it. How successful you are doesn't define you.
2023 April 14, is_Neki, Twitter
Origin
From Ice Cream, the 47th episode of the second season of the Australian preschool TV series Bluey (2018), in which the protagonist Bluey Heeler ostensibly mispronounces life lesson as lime lesson (but the episode's subtitles do not indicate this).
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lime lesson. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lime%20lesson
“lime lesson.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lime%20lesson. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lime lesson,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lime%20lesson.
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