SL Rockfish

And we continue to do two-minute lessons.

And today, we are going to talk about why people are eating ammunition, specifically, bite the bullet.

Now, if you take this literally, please don't.

It's terrible for your teeth.

Ah, I would break them.

In English, when we say someone bit the bullet, it means they finally accepted something difficult or unpleasant that they had been avoiding.

Oh, okay.

Imagine you've had a leaky faucet for three months.

You hate calling the plumber.

But the drip, drip, dripping is driving you crazy.

She drives me crazy.

You finally pick up the phone and say, I'm biting the bullet and calling the plumber.

Why a bullet?

Great question.

Back in the day, before doctors had modern medicine like anesthetics, soldiers sometimes had to bite on a lead bullet to endure the pain of surgery.

I kid you not.

Ow!

That had to hurt and be hard on the teeth.

Today, we just use it for scary phone calls or doing our taxes or something unpleasant like that.

What have you been putting off?