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take one's medicine

verb

Etymology

From the idea that medicine is good for one, but often unpleasant tasting.

Definitions

  1. To endure an unpleasant obligation, especially a punishment.

    • Your resistance to our class won't do you any good . If you'll come out and take your medicine like men, all right; but if you resist it will go that much harder with you.
    • I s'pose I'll have to go back and take my medicine. Now that I've got some grub in my stomach I guess I can stand it.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, medicine.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA