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
Patrick	PAT-rik (English), pat-REEK (French), PAHT-rik (German)	Irish, English, French, German
Vilhelms	-	Latvian
Sepp	ZEP	German
Derek	DER-ik	English
MelİS	-	Turkish
Linwood	LIN-wuwd	English