Verb
be a man (third-person singular simple present is a man, present participle being a man, simple past was a man, past participle been a man)
(idiomatic, chiefly imperative) To put up with something or take responsibility for it; to deal with something, such as pain or misfortune, without complaining.
After a performance turns real, Father Lance (Sam Jaeger) has no choice but to try his hardest to take what he's learned pretending to be a man of the cloth and apply it to a real demonic possession. Source: Internet
For example, if the system learns that Socrates is no longer known to be a man it will revoke the assertion that Socrates is mortal. Source: Internet
He turned out to be a man who had learned engineering at Charlottenburg, but during this course had acquired, by himself, a passion for the philosophy of mathematics & has now come to Cambridge on purpose to hear me." Source: Internet
Meyers 1998, p. 144. In the film, Cooper plays Long John Willoughby, a down-and-out bush-league pitcher hired by a newspaper to pretend to be a man who promises to commit suicide on Christmas Eve to protest all the hypocrisy and corruption in the country. Source: Internet
This time though, the villain of the piece would be a man who did not even take one, as David Beckham was sent off for kicking out at Diego Simeone. Source: Internet
B&B spoilers indicate that a proposal of marriage will be made and accepted during the week of March 9-12, and nobody said that it had to be a man who proposed. Source: Internet