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take the rap

VERB
bite the bullet
Synonyms
WEAK
be forced bow to fate cross the Rubicon face the music have no choice know no alternative leap into the breach pay the piper seize the opportunity stand up and take it suck it up swallow the pill take it take one's medicine

Example Sentences

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Mr Staunton also told the Sunday Times that when he was informed he was losing his job, Ms Badenoch had said: "Someone's got to take the rap."

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2024

One of the suspects reconsiders the possibility that his confederate will cash in on the promise of a deal, leaving him alone to take the rap.

From Salon • Dec. 5, 2020

Slip and the gang take the rap for a robbery they did not commit.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2020

But an attorney for Swearingen denies such a plot exists with a second death-row inmate, Anthony Shore, and Shore has not tried to take the rap for Swearingen’s convictions.

From Reuters • Oct. 22, 2017

The last time I’d seen him, he was going to take the rap for his love.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez