Definition
To face up to a difficult or disagreeable situation and deal with it.
In Context
- "There's a storm coming, so I grit my teeth and start rowing with all my might."
- "Japan's revolutionary New Tokaido Line, the 310-mile, 150 m.p.h. route between Tokyo and Osaka that is due to open for passenger traffic in October, has run into the same kind of budgetary trouble that held up our own LMR electrification, though the Japanese Government, unlike our own, has apparently gritted its teeth and allowed the project to go ahead to planned completion."
Also Said As
- face up to
- bite the bullet
- grin and bear it
- suck it up