sit and take it
Example Sentences
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“Maybe we get a big garbage can that he can sit and take it up there or something. And I’m being serious, by the way. It’s funny, but I am being serious.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2021
Well, then, are they just going to sit and take it?
From The Sensitive Man by Anderson, Poul William
All you could do, when he began, was to sit and take it till he got through, which consumed some valuable time for me that afternoon.
From In the Arena Stories of Political Life by Tarkington, Booth
I write on a piece of paper, "Where does the Bishop of Lincoln sit?" and take it to an official.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Furniss, Harry
Under the rules which the convention had adopted, he could not reply, so he had to sit and take it.
From My Memories of Eighty Years by Depew, Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell)
