live to regret

live to regret (third-person singular simple present lives to regret, present participle living to regret, simple past and past participle lived to regret)

1. (transitive) to regret doing something.

• kick oneself
• live with oneself
• rue the day

• “live to regret something”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “somebody will live to regret it” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “someone will live to regret something” (US) / “someone will live to regret something” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “live to regret”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.