take one's medicine

Put up with unpleasantness, learn one's lesson. For example, After failing math, he had to take his medicine and go to summer school. This idiom uses medicine in the sense of "a bitter-tasting remedy." [Mid-1800s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yustina	-	Russian
Malachy	-	Irish
Eshe	-	Eastern African, Swahili
Ilene	ie-LEEN	English
Ron (1)	RAHN	English
Lennie	['leni]