simple past tense of take one's medicine

(figuratively) To conceal how one arrived at a certain result or position.

plural of one-horse lawyer

A lawyer who has only worked in a small town, lacking the experience and sophistication of more prominent lawyers.

Without spending more than one can afford.

To spend time thinking about oneself or one's own interests, especially to the exclusion of others. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see contemplate, navel.

(UK, dated, figuratively) to think hard and try to remember something.

Alternative form of cudgel one's brain

Synonym of any way one slices it

present participle of put one's hands on