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take lying down
Idioms and Phrases
Submit to an insult, rebuke, or other harsh treatment without resisting, as in He won't take that snub lying down . This idiom uses lying down in the sense of “passively.” [Late 1800s] Also see take it , def. 2.Example Sentences
My stepfather was very sick at the end and before that spent much of his free time in bed reading, so many of his photos seemed to be taken lying down.
It is not a punishment that the clubs fans – and especially not its owners in Abu Dhabi – are likely to take lying down, says Jonathan Liew.
But there's one criticism, it seems, he won't take lying down.
Of course, you will have to be taken lying down because as far as the Journal goes you're dead.
But don’t believe that I am going to take lying down what may be coming to us.
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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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