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2020-12-03 04:12
To take it lying down negative informal verb phrase
I have submitted to insult for years, but now I'm not going to take it lying down any longer.
She is not taking that snub lying down.
To totally accept criticism, blame, or punishment for something.
1. To stay in a sitting position without fidgeting during something.
2. To not react to something; to bear something.
The verb "take" should be conjugated according to its tense.
I saw he took the dismissal lying down, and packed his stuff and then left without an argument.
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The image conveyed by this expression is that of a cowed animal, which accepts its unhappy fate instead of jumping up in protest. This metaphor appeared first in the late nineteenth century and is most often put negatively. It was so used by Shaw in Androcles and the Lion (1914): “I should feel ashamed if I let myself be struck like that, and took it lying down.”
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