"take on the chin" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "A reference to the sport of boxing.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes on the chin",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking on the chin",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took on the chin",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken on the chin",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> on the chin"
      },
      "expansion": "take on the chin (third-person singular simple present takes on the chin, present participle taking on the chin, simple past took on the chin, past participle taken on the chin)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013 September 20, Holly Baxter, “Is masturbating in public a laughing matter?”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2014-01-06",
          "text": "Elsewhere in Sweden recently, two underage girls pressed charges when a teenage boy exposed himself to them at a lake. The court decided, despite the victims' testimonies, that the offence was \"not of a sexual nature\" and dismissed it. But I'm guessing the girls didn't push for molestation charges because they were censorious prudes who would grow into knowing how to take such behaviour on the chin – they felt genuinely threatened, they took their concerns to court, and they deserved more than being told that they'd misread the situation all along.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To accept without flinching or complaining."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_on_the_chin-en-verb-3gzdAiUV",
      "links": [
        [
          "flinch",
          "flinch"
        ],
        [
          "complain",
          "complain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive, UK) To accept without flinching or complaining."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "64 36",
          "word": "take something in stride"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005 May 20, Robert David Kostoff, My Line Story, iUniverse, page 136",
          "text": "The situation seems to be designed so the taxpayers take it on the chin no matter what. District residents who vote down a budget believing they are voting against any tax raise still receive higher tax bills.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be deeply impacted by something."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_on_the_chin-en-verb-6HSfajPX",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive, US) To be deeply impacted by something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take on the chin"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "A reference to the sport of boxing.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes on the chin",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking on the chin",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took on the chin",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken on the chin",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> on the chin"
      },
      "expansion": "take on the chin (third-person singular simple present takes on the chin, present participle taking on the chin, simple past took on the chin, past participle taken on the chin)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "take something in stride"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013 September 20, Holly Baxter, “Is masturbating in public a laughing matter?”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2014-01-06",
          "text": "Elsewhere in Sweden recently, two underage girls pressed charges when a teenage boy exposed himself to them at a lake. The court decided, despite the victims' testimonies, that the offence was \"not of a sexual nature\" and dismissed it. But I'm guessing the girls didn't push for molestation charges because they were censorious prudes who would grow into knowing how to take such behaviour on the chin – they felt genuinely threatened, they took their concerns to court, and they deserved more than being told that they'd misread the situation all along.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To accept without flinching or complaining."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flinch",
          "flinch"
        ],
        [
          "complain",
          "complain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive, UK) To accept without flinching or complaining."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005 May 20, Robert David Kostoff, My Line Story, iUniverse, page 136",
          "text": "The situation seems to be designed so the taxpayers take it on the chin no matter what. District residents who vote down a budget believing they are voting against any tax raise still receive higher tax bills.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be deeply impacted by something."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive, US) To be deeply impacted by something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take on the chin"
}