take the bull by the horns

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Fig. to confront a problem head-on and deal with it openly. It's time to take the bull by the horns and get this job done.

See also: bull, horn, take

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There isn't one of these men who are sitting in judgment upon us to-day, Ambrose, who would listen to me for a single moment if I were to take the bull by the horns and say that the traitor we seek is one of ourselves. The Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context This very question came up, and the brutes themselves seemed so quick to see its possibilities that I thought best to take the bull by the horns and own that I had been rung up by somebody. A Thief in the Night by Hornung, E. W. View in context			take place take possession take pot luck take pride take pride in take public take pulse take refuge in take revenge take root take shape take sick take side take sides take sides against take solace take some doing take steps take stock take temperature take the bad with the good take the bait take the bit in teeth Take the bitter with the sweet take the blame take the bull by the horns take the cake take the chill off take the cloth take the count take the coward's way out take the cure take the easy way out take the edge off take the fall take the fall for take the fifth take the floor take the gloves off Take the goods the gods provide take the heat take the heat off take the initiative take the law into own hands take the liberty of take the liberty of doing take the lid off take the line of least resistance take the long view take the measure of take the mick			Take that Dude take the air take the bad with the good take the bait take the bench take the bench take the bench take the bench take the bench take the biscuit take the bit between teeth take the bit between teeth take the bit between teeth take the bit between teeth take the bit between teeth take the bit between teeth take the bit between the teeth take the bit in teeth take the bit in teeth take the bit in teeth take the bit in teeth take the bit in teeth take the bit in teeth Take the Bitter With the Sweet take the blame take the bread out from people's mouths take the bread out from people's mouths take the bread out of people's mouths take the bread out of people's mouths take the brunt of take the bull by the horns Take the Bus Project take the cake take the cake take the cake take the cake take the cake take the cake Take The Car take the chances of take the checkered flag take the chill off take the cloth take the consequences take the consequences take the consequences take the count take the count take the count take the count take the count take the count take the coward's way out take the cure take the day off take the dimensions take the easy way out take the edge off take the edge off take the fall take the fall for

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