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
Ardashir	-	Persian
Elin	E-lin (Swedish, Norwegian)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Welsh
Ameqran	-	Northern African, Berber
Dodie	DO-dee	English
Irune	-	Basque
Radobod	-	Ancient Germanic