bite the bullet
verbEtymology
Possibly from the reported practice of soldiers biting a bullet to avoid crying out in pain, usually during a medical procedure or punishment. See the Wikipedia article Bite the bullet for a further discussion of possible etymologies.
Definitions
To accept a negative aspect of a situation in order to proceed.
- The tenant was annoyed by the proposed rent increase, but the cost of moving would be even higher, so he bit the bullet and signed the new lease.
To accept an undesirable or counterintuitive implication of an argument or view.
The neighborhood
- neighborbit between one's teeth
- neighborgrit one's teeth
- neighborsuck it up
- neighbortake it like a man
- neighbortake one's medicine
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bite the bullet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA