"take one's medicine" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the idea that medicine is good for one, but often unpleasant tasting.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes one's medicine",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking one's medicine",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took one's medicine",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken one's medicine",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> one's medicine"
      },
      "expansion": "take one's medicine (third-person singular simple present takes one's medicine, present participle taking one's medicine, simple past took one's medicine, past participle taken one's medicine)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To endure an unpleasant obligation, especially a punishment."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "endure",
          "endure"
        ],
        [
          "unpleasant",
          "unpleasant"
        ],
        [
          "obligation",
          "obligation"
        ],
        [
          "punishment",
          "punishment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To endure an unpleasant obligation, especially a punishment."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, medicine."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "take",
          "take#English"
        ],
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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  "word": "take one's medicine"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the idea that medicine is good for one, but often unpleasant tasting.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes one's medicine",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking one's medicine",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took one's medicine",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken one's medicine",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> one's medicine"
      },
      "expansion": "take one's medicine (third-person singular simple present takes one's medicine, present participle taking one's medicine, simple past took one's medicine, past participle taken one's medicine)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To endure an unpleasant obligation, especially a punishment."
      ],
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        [
          "endure",
          "endure"
        ],
        [
          "unpleasant",
          "unpleasant"
        ],
        [
          "obligation",
          "obligation"
        ],
        [
          "punishment",
          "punishment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To endure an unpleasant obligation, especially a punishment."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, medicine."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "take",
          "take#English"
        ],
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "audio": "En-us-take one's medicine.oga",
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      "tags": [
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    }
  ],
  "word": "take one's medicine"
}