like a man

Meaning

like a man

(colloquial, simile) Bravely, decisively, and without complaining.
Don't be a wimp: deal with it like a man!

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

gamely manfully

Examples

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. Graham Greene

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. Henry Miller

Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him. Madagascan Proverb

He who is called a man must behave like a man. Nigerian Proverb

Nothing looks more like a man of sense than a fool who holds his tongue. German Proverb

Words in the phrase

like a man

Close letter words and terms

like a madman like a madwoman like a mammal like a man possessed like a martin to his gourd like a martin to its gourd