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View synonyms for take one's medicine

take one's medicine



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Put up with unpleasantness, learn one's lesson. For example, After failing math, he had to take his medicine and go to summer school . This idiom uses medicine in the sense of “a bitter-tasting remedy.” [Mid-1800s]

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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