The pain is so excruciating that the speaker doesn’t mind if someone kills him out right, say, with a bullet to the head – so that he’s free of the pain. That’s what “the most excruciating ...

Put up his fists and fight, or shut his mouth up and be quiet. Essentially that’s what his friends told him to do – to shut up and stop whinging, basically. Usually this kind of advice comes after a ...