Usually means: Recover after a setback privately.
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  1. lick one's wounds: Merriam-Webster
  2. lick one's wounds: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lick one's wounds, lick one's wounds: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lick one's wounds: Wiktionary
  5. lick one's wounds, lick ones wounds: Dictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (lick one's wounds)

verb:  (idiomatic) To withdraw temporarily while recovering from a defeat; to recuperate.


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