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Definition of Take lying down
1. Verb. Suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively. "I won't take this insult lying down"
Definition of Take lying down
1. Verb. (idiomatic) to endure without complaint or protest ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Take Lying Down
Literary usage of Take lying down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Invisible Exercise: Seven Studies in Self Command with Practical Suggestions by Gerald Stanley Lee (1922)
"... that lying down comfortably is at bottom a matter of brains—a matter of getting
the people who think they have them, to take lying down seriously—to get ..."
2. War and Waste: A Series of Discussions of War and War Accessories by David Starr Jordan (1913)
"It is this vicious claim which explains, if it does not excuse, the huge naval
armament of Germany, for "it is impossible to take, lying down, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1903)
"to take lying down.' But Mr Balfour prudently limited his retaliation to cases
in which hostile action would not hurt ourselves. Now the Dingley tariff not ..."
4. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1903)
"to take lying down.' But Mr Balf our prudently limited his retaliation to cases
in which hostile action would not hurt ourselves. Now the Dingley tariff not ..."
5. The Dangers of Municipal Ownership by Robert Percival Porter (1907)
"The English property classes are hardly likely to take, lying down, the gradual
confiscation of their belongings, which is threatened by the socialistic ..."
6. The Dangers of Municipal Ownership by Robert Percival Porter (1907)
"The English property classes are hardly likely to take, lying down, the gradual
confiscation of their belongings, which is threatened by the socialistic ..."
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