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
Ivah	-	Biblical
MehveŞ	-	Turkish
Cochran	['kɔkən]
Priya	-	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali
Maile	MIE-le	Hawaiian
Antanas	-	Lithuanian