Definition
To work through past experiences that have left emotional scars.
In Context
- "But a personal and almost menopausal crisis brings him back to an Edinburgh he hardly recognises. As if in a Sergio Leone film, Renton has an obscure need to return, to confront the demons of his past, in particular the three guys he ripped off after a drug deal at the end of the last story."
Also Said As
- face one's demons
- meet one's demons