take the bull by the horns

:  to get into one's hands or into one's possession, power, or control: such as

:  to seize or capture physically

:  to get possession of (fish or game) by killing or capturing

:  a distinct or personal point of view, outlook, or assessment

:  a distinct treatment or variation

:  an act or the action of taking: such as

:  a male bovine

:  an adult uncastrated male domestic bovine

:  a usually adult male of various large animals (such as elephants, whales, or seals)

:  of or relating to a bull

:  male

:  suggestive of a bull

:  to advance forcefully

:  to act on with violence

:  force

:  a solemn papal letter sealed with a bulla or with a red-ink imprint of the device on the bulla

:  edict, decree

:  to fool especially by fast boastful talk

:  to engage in idle and boastful talk

:  a grotesque blunder in language

:  empty boastful talk

:  nonsense

: bulletin

:  one of the usually paired bony processes that arise from the head of many ungulates and that are found in some extinct mammals and reptiles: such as

:  one of the permanent paired hollow sheaths of keratin usually present in both sexes of cattle and their relatives that function chiefly for defense and arise from a bony core anchored to the skull — see cow illustration

:  antler