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grin and bear it

Verb

Meaning

grin and bear it (third-person singular simple present grins and bears it, present participle grinning and bearing it, simple past grinned and bore it, past participle grinned and borne it)

To endure a difficult or disagreeable situation with good humour.
They made me work the Saturday of our wedding anniversary. What could I say? I just had to grin and bear it.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

But then I discovered that they didn’t photograph so terribly ( was the first recipe photographed in the then-new kitchen) and decided to grin and bear it. Source: Internet

Most people who’ve suffered bad service just grin and bear it in front of the service provider, purely to avoid the unpleasantness of a scene. Source: Internet

Even if it’s terrible, I’ll try to grin and bear it. Source: Internet

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