See take one's medicine in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From the idea that medicine is good for one, but often unpleasant tasting.",
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"ref": "1910, Arthur M. Winfield, The Rover Boys at College:",
"text": "Your resistance to our class won't do you any good . If you'll come out and take your medicine like men, all right; but if you resist it will go that much harder with you.",
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"ref": "1962, W. Cleon Skousen, So You Want to Raise a Boy?, page 203:",
"text": "if the police pick up \"a real fine boy\" —which most of them are — who has been fooling around, the boy's father can add a building block to Junior's personality by saying, \"My boy, you know better. Now take your medicine like a man and we'll just call it one of life's lessons.”",
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"ref": "2015, L. M. Montgomery, Rainbow Valley, page 50:",
"text": "I s'pose I'll have to go back and take my medicine. Now that I've got some grub in my stomach I guess I can stand it.",
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"ref": "2015, Dave Warner, Before It Breaks, page 128:",
"text": "Today he felt obliged to take his medicine, to acknowledge the apex of his life had been reached and he was plunging in a billycart down the other side.",
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