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take lying down

verb

Definitions

  1. To endure without complaint or protest.

    • I don't know what they expect, but I am certainly not going to take this lying down.
    • Thai police prevented a commemoration on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre from taking place outside the Chinese embassy in Bangkok. Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, the event's young organizer, didn't take it lying down, though.

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