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
Sens	-	Medieval Spanish
Conrad	KAHN-rad (English), KAWN-raht (German)	English, German, Ancient Germanic
Godehard	-	Ancient Germanic
Illiam	-	Manx
Hanan (2)	-	Arabic
Eguzki	-	Basque