[post_page_title]”Bite the bullet”[/post_page_title]
To “bite the bullet” means to face or endure a difficult or uncomfortable situation with resilience. The origin of this phrase is interestingly found in quite a literal context. Before the invention of anesthesia, soldiers would bite on a bullet to endure the pain of surgical procedures.
There is evidence to suggest, however, that the idiom actually originates from the expression “refusing to bite the cartridge,” used during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 by the British to refer to the Native Indian soldiers, who had mutinied.
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