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take your medicine.

Phrase / Idiom
Conversational
MEANING

To accept an unpleasant consequence or necessary difficulty rather than trying to avoid it.

Use it for

accepting the consequences of a mistake; facing punishment or criticism without dodging it; enduring an unpleasant step that has become necessary

Words that belong together

  • have to take your medicine
  • be prepared to take your medicine

On the page

After admitting the mistake, she knew she would have to take her medicine at the next meeting.

Nearby words

face the consequencesaccept the consequences

Related words

take one's medicine (possessive variant)take my medicine (possessive variant)took his medicine (inflected possessive variant)
Word forms
Base
take your medicine

Usage notes

Lexical Type: Idiom. Every future addition must be classified at creation. Commonness: common. Idiom grammar is described in Usage Notes 1; no artificial whole-phrase conjugations are stored.

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