| Word | grin and bear it |
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| Description | suffer pain or misfortune in a stoical manner. The usual modern sense of grin is less sinister than its earliest senses when it entered the language it primarily meant an act of showing the teeth or a snarl. From the mid 17th century to the mid 18th century, a grin was generally used in a derogatory way or in unfavourable contrast to a cheerful smile. The sense of grin in grin and bear it retains the earlier associations with showing your teeth in a grimace of pain oranger. Grin and abide is recorded as a proverb in the late 18th century; the modern version dates from the late 19th century. suffer pain or misfortune in a stoical manner. The usual modern sense of grin is less sinister than its earliest senses when it entered the language it primarily meant an act of showing the teeth or a snarl. From the mid 17th century to the mid 18th century, a grin was gene |
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