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take lying down

VERB
  1. suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively
    I won't take this insult lying down

How To Use take lying down In A Sentence

  • But don't think for a minute that the novelist of his generation is going to take lying down the criticism of his new book, from those early whispers of overfamiliar themes to that embargo-busting kicking.
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