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take_it_like_a_man

take it like a man

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Verb

take it like a man (third-person singular simple present takes it like a man, present participle taking it like a man, simple past took it like a man, past participle taken it like a man)

  1. (idiomatic) To respond to pain, hardship, adversity, or emotional distress in a collected, aggressive, and typical or stereotypical masculine manner, especially without question, crying, complaining, or becoming emotional
    There was no moping around the house with a depressed disposition when one of my romances turned sour because, as far as my love life went, father expected me to take it like a man.

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