TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take the bull by the horns mean? 

• TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS (verb)
  The verb TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS has 1 sense:

1. face a difficulty and grapple with it without avoiding it

  Familiarity information: TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Face a difficulty and grapple with it without avoiding it

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "take the bull by the horns" is one way to...):

confront; face (oppose, as in hostility or a competition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Eclipses tend to push events to one end of the spectrum or the other, so if you have been unhappy with your partner, you will courageously take the bull by the horns and break up.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)