take one's lumps
忍辱负重,忍痛割爱,忍气吞声,吃苦头
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Definitions
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- : a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- : a protuberance or swelling: a blow that raised a lump on his head.
- : an aggregation, collection, or mass; clump: All the articles were piled in a great lump.
- : Also called lump of sugar. a small block of granulated sugar, designed for sweetening hot coffee, tea, etc.: How many lumps do you take in your coffee?
- : majority; plurality; multitude: The great lump of voters are still undecided.
- : lumps, Informal. harsh criticism, punishment, or defeat: The new theory came in for some lumps when other scholars heard of it.
- : Informal. a heavy, clumsy, and usually stupid person.
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- : in the form of a lump or lumps: lump sugar.
- : made up of a number of items taken together; not separated or considered separately: The debts were paid in one lump sum.
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- : to unite into one aggregation, collection, or mass: We lumped the reds and blues together.
- : to deal with, handle, consider, etc., in the lump or mass: to lump unrelated matters indiscriminately.
- : to make into a lump or lumps: to lump dough before shaping it into loaves.
- : to raise into or cover with lumps: a plow lumping the moist earth.
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- : to form or raise a lump or lumps: Stir the gravy so that it doesn't lump.
- : to move heavily and awkwardly: The big oaf lumped along beside me.
Phrases
- lump in one's throat
- like it or lump it
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
You can lump unemployment policies into two broad categories—the US-style efforts that provide payments to people who have lost their jobs, and policies popular in Europe that provide money to companies to keep workers on the payroll.
Unlike spoons, spurtles allegedly don’t drag and prevent lumps.
That arrangement might look something like paying a lump sum, Shevchuck suggests, but Moran argues “in my experience, arrangements to collect money from employees who have departed are inherently problematic.”
Upon closer inspection of a big lump of bones in the creature’s belly, Motani’s team discovered that the last thing the ichthyosaur ate was the body of a thalattosaur, sans head and tail.
A pair of changes being rolled out to Apple’s operating systems has publishers lumping the device maker into that group as well.
French President François Hollande is telling the French people they should “not lump them together.”
If the Americans are going to lump them together with ISIS, maybe best to join forces.
The one-time anti-bullying champion let his attorney seek to lump the victim together with the victimizer.
One morning in late December, Sclove told me she awoke to discover a lump on her lower spine.
The lump, it turned out, was the result of a dislocated vertebrae.
Besides a few crumbs, it contained a small lump of narwhal blubber and a little packet.
Now Isaias had ordered that they should take a lump of figs, and lay it as a plaster upon the wound, and that he should be healed.
He gulped back the lump in his throat; his trembling nerves became as steel.
Furs should be kept in a box, alone, and in summer carefully packed, with a quantity of lump camphor to protect from moths.
There was a lump in Perry's throat at that moment, and he stopped his rocking and turned to the fire, so his back was toward me.