unpleasant situation that is seen as unavoidable. Before the days of effective anaesthetics, soldiers were given bullets to bite on to help them endure pain.
To "bite the bullet" is to endure a painful or otherwise
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• I thought they were given the stick! -婧芊- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/22/2016 postreply 07:45:51
• The theory goes that patients undergoing surgery -无牙- ♂ (283 bytes) () 12/22/2016 postreply 07:52:08
• Nowadays people will think of 'bite a bullet' -婧芊- ♀ (46 bytes) () 12/22/2016 postreply 08:16:30