bite the bullet

뜻

to make yourself do something unpleasant you have been avoiding

미뤄 온 싫은 일을 마음먹고 하다.

예문

1. 1I'd been avoiding the pile of bills for weeks, but on Sunday I bit the bullet and sorted them out.
2. 2We'll have to bite the bullet and tell the landlord we're moving out.
3. 3The boiler was ancient, so in January we bit the bullet and paid for a new one.
4. 4Tom kept putting off the difficult phone call, but in the end he had to bite the bullet.
5. 5Are you going to bite the bullet and ask your boss for a pay rise?

문법

bite만 형태가 바뀐다: bites, biting, bit, bitten. 뒤에 and와 동사가 와서 싫은 일을 나타내는 경우가 많다.

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