See take lying down on Wiktionary
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"text": "I don't know what they expect, but I am certainly not going to take this lying down.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2020 June 4, UCA News Reporter, “Thai activists get creative to mark Tianamen massacre”, in La Croix International, Bayard, retrieved 2020-06-05",
"text": "Thai police prevented a commemoration on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre from taking place outside the Chinese embassy in Bangkok. Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, the event's young organizer, didn't take it lying down, though.",
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"To endure without complaint or protest."
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"(transitive) To endure without complaint or protest."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "endure without complaint",
"word": "niellä purematta"
},
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "endure without complaint",
"word": "accepter sans protester"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "endure without complaint",
"word": "accepter sans broncher"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "endure without complaint",
"word": "accepter sans rien dire"
},
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"sense": "endure without complaint",
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],
"word": "po cichu znosić"
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"sense": "endure without complaint",
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}
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}
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "endure without complaint",
"word": "niellä purematta"
},
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "endure without complaint",
"word": "accepter sans protester"
},
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"sense": "endure without complaint",
"word": "accepter sans broncher"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "endure without complaint",
"word": "accepter sans rien dire"
},
{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "endure without complaint",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "po cichu znosić"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "endure without complaint",
"word": "engolir"
}
],
"word": "take lying down"
}
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