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take it on the chin
Idioms and Phrases
Suffer adversity or defeat, as in Paul really took it on the chin today when he got fired for missing a deadline . This idiom alludes to taking a physical blow on the chin. [First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
Let's see whether it turns out okay for him and Disney even though the news department takes it on the chin!
So you’re gonna fail at some point and you just have to take it on the chin and find a way to just get better.”
"There's nothing that can be done and we just have to take it on the chin."
"In the face of hurricane shocks, agricultural production in southern states like Florida will take it on the chin," he said.
"We just had to take it on the chin and get on with it."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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