Synonyms:
- Committing to the experience with gusto
- Knowing full well what is coming and going anyway
- Displaying impressive front
- Talking a bigger game than the stomach can back up
- Making a public declaration of confidence
- Not backing down in front of witnesses
- Entering into a contract with consequences
- Fully aware and proceeding regardless
- Brave in the ordering phase
- Visibly reconsidering midway through
- Eating for the story
- Paying the price with dignity