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lying down



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Idioms and Phrases

see take lying down . Also see lie down .
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The party is calling on the government to launch an advertising blitz to send a "collective message" that the UK "won't take Trump's tariffs lying down".

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But I am now very worried that the corpse is Rick because there is no way Jim is going to take being shoved over lying down.

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Queen kaMayisela did not take any of this lying down, instituting separate court action to halt the wedding, which was postponed as a result.

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But the opposition is awake and clear-eyed about what they are doing to our country and they aren't going to take it lying down.

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He said he was confined to lying down in a darkened room for at least six months, because any light coming in was painful and the headaches were "horrific".

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