Brewer's: Bridle

To bite on the bridle is to suffer great hardships. The bridle was an instrument for punishing a scold; to bite on the bridle is to suffer this punishment.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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