rip off the band-aid (English, verb)
expansion: rip off the band-aid (third-person singular simple present rips off the band-aid, present participle ripping off the band-aid, simple past and past participle ripped off the band-aid)
Senses:
glosses: To perform a painful or unpleasant, but necessary, action quickly so as to minimize the pain or fear associated with it.
tags: idiomatic
informal
Forms:
form: rips off the band-aid
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ripping off the band-aid
tags: participle
present
form: ripped off the band-aid
tags: participle
past
form: ripped off the band-aid
tags: past