take a pill
Swallow your medicine
To take a pill is to swallow medication in tablet or capsule form: I take a pill for my blood pressure every morning.
The phrase take a chill pill means to calm down or relax, treating agitation as something treatable with medicine.
Someone told to take a pill is being dismissed as overwrought or irrational.
- calm downBecome less agitated
- deep breathThorough filling of lungs
- copeHandle difficulties adequately
- tabletFlat portable computing device
- idiomFixed phrase, opaque meaning
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