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Meaning: (idiomatic,informal)Toendureanunpleasantobligation, especially apunishment.1910, Arthur M. Winfield,The Rover Boys at College:Your resistance to our class won't do you any good . If you'll come out andtake your medicinelike men, all right; but if you resist it will go that much harder with you.1962, W. Cleon Skousen,So You Want to Raise a Boy?, page203:if the police pick up "a real fine boy" —which most of them are — who has been fooling around, the boy's father can add a building block to Junior's personality by saying, "My boy, you know better. Nowtake your medicinelike a man and we'll just call it one of life's lessons.”2015, L. M. Montgomery,Rainbow Valley, page50:I s'pose I'll have to go back andtake my medicine. Now that I've got some grub in my stomach I guess I can stand it.2015, Dave Warner,Before It Breaks, page128:Today he felt obliged totake his medicine, to acknowledge the apex of his life had been reached and he was plunging in a billycart down the other side.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seetake,medicine.
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