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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Grin and Bear It (You must), or You must grin and bide it, for resistance is hopeless. You may make up a face, if you like, but you cannot help yourself. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Submission | Pocket the affront; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; grin and abide, grin and bear it, shrug the shoulders, resign oneself; submit with a good grace; (bear with). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Grin and Bear It (1954) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Grin and bear it. "...And I say fie on nitpickers of the president's budget who are already asking, 'what comes after a trillion?'". Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
grin and bear it | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GRIN AND BEAR IT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fsheh dhimbje nën buzëqeshje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | понасям мъжествено. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | snést to klidnì, nedat najevo rozmrzelost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | in den sauren Apfel beißen (to grin and bear it, to swallow the pill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fájdalmat mosolyogva tûr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ingray anday earbay itay стойко переносить. (various references) primiti s osmehom. (various references) sabırla katlanmak, katlanmak (abide, accept, bear, Brook, crease, digest, do with, double, endure, face, face up to, go through, last out, lump, lump it, put up with, sit down under, stand, stand the racket, stick, stick it, stick out, stomach, suffer, sustain, sweat out, take, take it, take one's medicine, tolerate, undergo), dişini sıkmak (bear, endure, summon up one's courage, take one's courage in both hands). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-g-i-i-n-n-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: reradiating. | |
-3 letters: arbitraged, bartending, brigandine, brigantine, detraining, eradiating, interabang, redbaiting, retraining. | |
-4 letters: arbitrage, arraigned, bantering, bargained, bargainer, bartering, brigadier, debarring, detaining, gabardine, inebriant, ingrained, integrand, interring, irradiate, irridenta, irrigated, narrating, radiating, rebaiting, rebinding, regardant, retaining, retarding, tragedian, trainband. | |
-5 letters: aberrant, abrading, abridger, aerating, anearing, antiarin, arginine, arranged, badinage, bandager, barraged, bearding, berating, betiding, bigarade. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Images: Photo Album 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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