bite the bullet
/ˌbaɪt ðə ˈbʊlɪt/INFORMAL · C1
中文对应完全对应
硬着头皮
字面意思: «咬住子弹»
含义
to make yourself do something unpleasant you have been avoiding
逼自己去做一直回避的难事.
例句
- 1I'd been avoiding the pile of bills for weeks, but on Sunday I bit the bullet and sorted them out.
- 2We'll have to bite the bullet and tell the landlord we're moving out.
- 3The boiler was ancient, so in January we bit the bullet and paid for a new one.
- 4Tom kept putting off the difficult phone call, but in the end he had to bite the bullet.
- 5Are you going to bite the bullet and ask your boss for a pay rise?
语法
只有 bite 变化形式:bites、biting、bit、bitten。后面常接 and 加动词,说明要做的难事。
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