Bite the Bullet

May 14, 2024 Comments Off on Bite the Bullet

If you’ve read my posts awhile you know that my love for phrase-origins sometimes surfaces. Today I offer “bite the bullet,” meaning to do or accept something you strongly disagree with. You’ve seen this in Westerns or war movies. A doctor tells a patient that what they’re about to do will hurt a lot, but they’ve run out of pain killers or anesthesia. They then give the patient a bullet and told to bite down hard to relieve some of the pain. It was just a distraction, but sometimes it actually worked, sort of.

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