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Verb: bite the bullet
  1. Face a difficulty and grapple with it without avoiding it
    - take the bull by the horns, grasp the nettle

Derived forms: bites the bullet, bitten the bullet

Type of: confront, face

Encyclopedia: Bite the bullet

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