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View synonyms for take the bull by the horns

take the bull by the horns

  1. Take the initiative in confronting a difficult position: “You'll never decide what you want in life by just thinking about it; you must take the bull by the horns and try out a few possibilities.”


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Idioms and Phrases

Confront a problem head-on, as in We'll have to take the bull by the horns and tackle the Medicare question . This term most likely alludes to grasping a safely tethered bull, not one the matador is fighting in the ring. [c. 1800]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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