grin and bear it
To endure a difficult or disagreeable situation with good humorTo endure a difficult or disagreeable situation with good humor.
» We just have to grin and bear it.
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1 senses(idiomatic)To endure a difficult or disagreeable situation with good humor.
They made me work the Saturday of our wedding anniversary; what could I say? I just had to grin and bear it.
Examples
8 sentencesWe just have to grin and bear it.
Tom had no choice but to grin and bear it.
deTom blieb nichts anderes übrig, als es lächelnd hinzunehmen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I had to grin and bear it.
deDa musste ich gute Miene zum bösen Spiel machen. — Alois
She's got to grin and bear it.
deSie muss gute Miene zum bösen Spiel machen. — Esperantostern
She has to grin and bear it.
deSie muss gute Miene zum bösen Spiel machen. — Esperantostern
Translations
3 languagesForms
grins and bears it, grinning and bearing it, grinned and bore it, grinned and borne it| Base form | grin and bear it · to grin and bear it |
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| 3rd person singular | grins and bears it |
| Present participle | grinning and bearing it |
| Past simple | grinned and bore it |
| Past participle | grinned and borne it |
irregular
Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.