Meaning of take one's medicine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To endure an unpleasant obligation, especially a punishment.
   idiomatic, informal
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, medicine.

Examples

“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.”

“if the police pick up "a real fine boy" —which most of them are — who has been fooling around, the boy's father can add a building block to Junior's personality by saying, "My boy, you know better. Now take your medicine like a man and we'll just call it one of life's lessons.””

“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.”

“Today he felt obliged to take his medicine, to acknowledge the apex of his life had been reached and he was plunging in a billycart down the other side.”

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