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
Burgundy	BUR-gən-dee	English (Rare)
MatÚŠ	-	Slovak
Varsha	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil
Heracles	-	Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Modestus	-	Late Roman
Ane (2)	-	Frisian