Meaning of take the red pill | Babel Free

Definitions

To perceive the world in its previously unknown, usually harsher, reality.

idiomatic

Examples

“If you want to be a successful bootstrapper, you have to take the red pill and determine how deep the rabbit hole called your organization goes.”

“As much as we, our generation, start to believe this fictionalized new version of reality we become complicit.... The only way out is to take the Red pill and see what things really look like.”

“In this day and time, we must begin to take the “red pill” and open our first eye to see what's really going on, and who's behind this madness involving Hip Hop videos.”

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