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Eat Dirt Forced Accept Insults Bad Treatment Complaining

Phrase/Idiom eat dirt
Definition If someone eats dirt, they are forced to accept insults or bad treatment without complaining.
Example Since jobs are scarce in this city, the manager can make the employees eat dirt with no risk of social unrest.

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