"take one's lumps" meaning in English

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    },
    {
      "form": "took one's lumps",
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    },
    {
      "form": "taken one's lumps",
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    },
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        {
          "ref": "1960 December 5, “Artful Dodgers”, in Time",
          "text": "When frustrated tacklers finally do catch up with him, Arnett knows how to take his lumps. \"If I hit the ground tensely, rigidly, and two tons of angry linemen landed on top of me, they'd break every bone in my body.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To receive physical abuse and to survive."
      ],
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          "abuse",
          "abuse"
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        [
          "survive",
          "survive"
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        "(slang) To receive physical abuse and to survive."
      ],
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        "slang"
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          "text": "1987, David Fellman, \"A Renowned Civil Libertarian,\" (review of Zechariah Chafee, Jr.: Defender of Liberty and Law by Donald L. Smith), The Review of Politics, vol. 49, no. 3, p. 444,\nAs is the case with so many outspoken civil libertarians, Chafee took his lumps. He was strongly criticized by several Harvard Law School graduates."
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        "To endure through criticism or other adversity."
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        "(slang, figuratively) To endure through criticism or other adversity."
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "13 87",
          "word": "tough it out"
        }
      ],
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        "figuratively",
        "slang"
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        "present",
        "singular",
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        {
          "ref": "1960 December 5, “Artful Dodgers”, in Time",
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        }
      ],
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        "To receive physical abuse and to survive."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "physical",
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        ],
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          "abuse",
          "abuse"
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          "survive",
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        "(slang) To receive physical abuse and to survive."
      ],
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      ]
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          "text": "1987, David Fellman, \"A Renowned Civil Libertarian,\" (review of Zechariah Chafee, Jr.: Defender of Liberty and Law by Donald L. Smith), The Review of Politics, vol. 49, no. 3, p. 444,\nAs is the case with so many outspoken civil libertarians, Chafee took his lumps. He was strongly criticized by several Harvard Law School graduates."
        }
      ],
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        "To endure through criticism or other adversity."
      ],
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          "criticism",
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        [
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        "(slang, figuratively) To endure through criticism or other adversity."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "tough it out"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take one's lumps"
}