Sekirov Dictionary

take one's medicine

verb1

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(informal) 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. — 1910

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