Meaning of confront one's demons | Babel Free

Definitions

To work through past experiences that have left emotional scars.

idiomatic

Examples

“But a personal and almost menopausal crisis brings him back to an Edinburgh he hardly recognises. As if in a Sergio Leone film, Renton has an obscure need to return, to confront the demons of his past, in particular the three guys he ripped off after a drug deal at the end of the last story.”

CEFR level