bite the bullet
To accept a negative aspect of a situation in order to proceed.
The tenant was annoyed by the proposed rent increase, but the cost of moving would be even higher, so he bit the bullet and signed the new lease.
noun
A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d / And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, / Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made, / That leads to Pallace of my brothers life, / Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not.
A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle ⟨•⟩, often used to mark items in a list.
A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
verb
To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
For instance, in the article on Tim Berners-Lee, we have bulleted "World Wide Web"
The author has bulleted this section to make it easier to read and included important notes and warnings.
To speed, like a bullet.
Their debut started slow, but bulleted to number six in its fourth week.
After a little pause, during which the train bulleted through the tunnel, he said, “Poor man,” referring to his late father.
To make a shot, especially with great speed.
He bulleted a header for his first score of the season.
To inflict bullet shots upon.
They got bro-bro stuck on the wing, cah I picked up and bullet him
To fire from a job; to dismiss.
Mowbray never had that luxury, he was bulleted after a run of bad results just as Kenny Dalglish was at Liverpool last season.
noun
A young or little bull; a male calf.
—Chicago boasts of a citizen of fine discrimination and delicacy, who, riding in the suburbs with his best girl, passed a stable in the door of which stood a couple of calves. "See," said the young lady, "those two cute little cowlets." "Those are not cowlets, Araminta; they are bullets."
“I am not sure a compilation of odds and ends should be called a ‘book.’ Perhaps ‘booklet’ would be the better designation. My daughter, when quite young, once spoke of a heifer calf she saw grazing on the rim of the road as a ‘cowlet.’ In reality, the wayside animal was a ‘bullet.’ Though this book, or booklet, isn’t even calf-bound, the analogy should have been close enough to make me wary of jumping to a conclusion. However, it is too late now.