One of the characters has a broken, aching tooth and cannot get treatment. The phrase was used in a literal sense in the 1975 film Bite the Bullet. It has been speculated to have evolved from the British expression "to bite the cartridge", which dates to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, but the phrase "chew a bullet", with a similar meaning, dates to at least 1796. Evidence for biting a bullet rather than a leather strap during surgery is sparse, although Harriet Tubman related having once assisted in a Civil War amputation in which the patient was given a bullet to bite down on. It has been suggested that it is derived historically from the practice of having a patient clench a bullet in their teeth as a way to cope with the pain of a surgical procedure without anesthetic. This phrase is of military origin, but the precise allusion is uncertain.
The phrase was first recorded by Rudyard Kipling in his 1891 novel The Light that Failed. bite the bullet Behave bravely or stoically when facing pain or a difficult situation, as in If they want to cut the budget deficit, they are going to have to bite the bullet and find new sources of revenue. " Biting the bullet" is a metaphor which is used to describe a situation, often a debate, where one accepts an inevitable impending hardship or hard-to-refute point and endure the resulting pain with fortitude. To bite the bullet means to face up to something you have to do and cant avoid, regardless of how difficult that may be, and to accept the consequences. For other uses, see Bite the bullet (disambiguation).
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