Synonyms for take one's lumps
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : luhmp |
| Phonetic Transcription : lÊŒmp |
Top 10 synonyms for take one's lumps
- face the music
- face up to
- face up to it
- go along with
- grin and bear it
- hang tough
- live with
- look square in the eye
- make one's bed and lie on it
- pay the piper
- play the game
- put up with
- sit still for
- stand for
- stick it out
- stomach
- submit to
- suffer
- swallow
- swallow the pill
- take
- take one's lumps
- take one's medicine
- take the consequences
- tolerate
Définition of take one's lumps
Origin :- early 14c., lumpe (1224 as surname), probably in Old English, perhaps from a Scandinavian source (cf. cognate Danish lumpe, 16c.), of unknown origin. Cf. also Middle High German lumpe, early modern Dutch lompe. Phrase lump in (one's) throat "feeling of tightness brought on by emotion" is from 1803. Lumps "hard knocks, a beating" is colloquial, from 1934. Lump sum, one covering a number of items, is from 1867.
- As in take it : verb accept, endure
- As in face the music : verb accept the consequences
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