| 单词 | to take one's medicine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take one's medicine b. colloquial. to take one's medicine: to submit to or endure something necessary or deserved but disagreeable; to learn a lesson. a taste (also dose, etc.) of one's own (kind of) medicine: repayment or retaliation in kind; tit for tat. the same medicine: the same or similar treatment. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > be patient [phrase] > endure something disagreeable to take one's medicine1858 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > offer no resistance [verb (intransitive)] > submit to action givec950 sufferc1315 submita1525 acquiesce1660 to take one's medicine1858 the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > [noun] > that which is done in return quo1577 a taste (also dose, etc.) of one's own (kind of) medicine1894 1858 Harper's Mag. Apr. 716/2 The next day he was in hands again for another dose of the same medicine, to be applied outwardly, and well beaten in. 1860 S. A. Douglas in H. Greeley Polit. Text-bk. 131/1 I would like Mr. Lincoln to answer this question. I would like him to take his own medicine. 1894 P. L. Ford Hon. Peter Stirling xxvii. 150 ‘He snubbed me..,’ explained Miss De Voe, smiling slightly at the thought of treating Peter with a dose of his own medicine. 1903 N.Y. Times 21 Sept. 7/5 Canada can do nothing—she must take her medicine and make the best of it. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf xxv. 228 I'm going to give that brother of mine a taste of his own medicine. 1939 T. S. Eliot Family Reunion i. i. 18 Make him feel that what has happened doesn't matter. He's taken his medicine, I've no doubt. 1961 C. Willock Death in Covert xii. 217 I set the spring-guns, sir... I'm willing to take my medicine for that. 1968 E. Gaines in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 102 He ain't the first one they ever beat and he won't be the last one, and getting in it will just bring you a dose of the same medicine. 1994 E. McNamee Resurrection Man (1998) xxiv 221 Every time you turn on the telly there's some politician talking the mouth off himself, dose of their own medicine's what they want. < as lemmas |
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