Take the bitter with the sweet

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Accept life's misfortunes as well as its joys.

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Words nearby Take the bitter with the sweet

take steps, take stock, take stock in, takes two, take the bit in one's mouth, Take the bitter with the sweet, take the bread out of someone's mouth, take the bull by the horns, take the cake, take the edge off, take the fall

How to use Take the bitter with the sweet in a sentence

Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
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She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
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I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
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She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.
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So after a few minutes I remarked to him, "Everything tastes very sweet out of this spoon!"
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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Other Idioms and Phrases with Take the bitter with the sweet

take the bitter with the sweet

Accept adversity as well as good fortune, as in Although he got the job, he hadn't counted on having to work with Matthew; he'll just have to take the bitter with the sweet. This idiom uses bitter for “bad” and sweet for “good,” a usage dating from the late 1300s. It was first recorded in John Heywood's 1546 proverb collection. For a synonym, see take the rough with the smooth.