单词 | take one's medicine |
释义 | take one's medicineSEE SYNONYMS FOR take one's medicine ON THESAURUS.COM 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] Words nearby take one's medicinetake one's breath away, take one's chances, take one's cue from, take one's hat off to, take one's leave, take one's medicine, take one's time, take one's word for, take on faith, take on oneself, takeout 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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