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American Slang & Idioms - BITE THE BULLET

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This is a phrase which means to endure pain.
This expression originated in battlefields. Prior to anesthetics, soldiers were given a bullet to bite with their teeth to help them endure pain after injury or before an operation.
The phrase also means to be strong during pain.
For example, you can say, Its time to just bite the bullet and admit that you did wrong.

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  • I have just invented a new one: bite the grenade, bite the grenade....

  • Bite the bullet.

  • I'm American, but this is for the chinese people out there. 我觉得中文是hard。I don't know what hard is.

  • WOW! thanks!

  • suk my dik

  • Never drops the final T. There is mouth movement for a T but the tongue does not not fully connect. The difference is very noticeable when a foreign learner fully drops the final T.

  • same here.

  • im in love! o.O

  • Wow at your tag, there's traditional-chinese, do you learn lingustic?JUst wanna know^^

  • Not true. It's only "estuary" English or Mockney which we have thrust down our throats by the media,which persistently drops the final "t"

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