1) Accept an inevitable hardship 2) Begin resignedly 3) Endure unpleasantness 4) Face the music 5) Persist through adversity 6) Prepare for pain 7) Prepare for unpleasantness 8) Steel oneself 9) Take a hit and keep on coming 10) Take painful steps 11) Tough it out
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To `bite the bullet` is to endure a painful or otherwise unpleasant situation that is seen as unavoidable. The phrase was first recorded by Rudyard Kipling in his 1891 novel The Light that Failed. It is often stated that it is derived historically from the practice of having a patient clench a bullet in his or her teeth as a way to cope with the.....
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Bite the bullet is British slang for to suffer without complaint.
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