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Today's idiom is bite the bullet.
So to bite the bullet, what does that mean?
Let's just take a look here and see what bite the bullet means.
This means to endure a painful or unpleasant situation with courage and determination.
It often involves accepting the situation and facing it head on, even if it's difficult or uncomfortable.
The phrase bite the bullet may have originated from the practice of having patients bite down on a bullet during surgery, before anesthesia was widely used.
Today, it's commonly used in a figurative sense to encourage someone to face a difficult situation without backing down or giving up.
And sometimes it's also, it doesn't necessarily have to be a difficult thing.
It could also be something that you don't want to do.
I think that's where we use it most often.
There's just some kind of chore or some kind of job that you have to do, and you don't really want to do it.
You're putting it off for a while, and finally you say, I just need to bite the bullet and do the chore, and you have to bite the bullet and just clean your house or bite the bullet and take out the garbage, whatever it is, whatever unpleasant situation that you don't want to do, whatever it is.