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took the bitter with the sweet

took the bitter with the sweet is the simple past of take the bitter with the sweet.

Meaning of take the bitter with the sweet

Verb

take the bitter with the sweet (third-person singular simple present takes the bitter with the sweet, present participle taking the bitter with the sweet, simple past took the bitter with the sweet, past participle taken the bitter with the sweet)

  1. (idiomatic) To accept positive things with negative things.
    • Today we had the bitter with the sweet: they approved the loan but only gave us a year to pay it back in.

Questions about took the bitter with the sweet

What is took the bitter with the sweet the simple past of?
Took the bitter with the sweet is the simple past of take the bitter with the sweet.

Words near took the bitter with the sweet in the dictionary

  1. took ten
  2. took the bait
  3. took the ball and ran with it
  4. took the bench
  5. took the biscuit
  6. took the bitter with the sweet
  7. took the bread out of someone's mouth
  8. took the Browns to the Super Bowl
  9. took the bull by the horns
  10. took the cake
  11. took the chair

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