🔹Essential American Idioms🔹
⭐️#ACCEPTANCE:
✨Eat one's words
▶️ to have to take back one's statements; to confess that one's predictions were wrong.
🔻You shouldn't say that to me. I'll make you eat your words.
🔻John was wrong about the election and had to eat his words.
✨Face the music
▶️ to receive punishment; to accept the unpleasant results of one's actions.
🔻Mary broke a dining-room window and had to face the music when her father got home.
🔻After failing a math test, Tom had to go home and face the music.
✨Feel at home
▶️ to feel as if one belongs; to feel as if one were in one's home; to feel accepted.
🔻I liked my dormitory room. I really felt at home there.
🔻We will do whatever we can to make you feel at home.
✨Go over big with someone
▶️ to be very much appreciated by someone.
🔻Your jokes did not exactly go over big with my parents.
🔻We hope that the musical will go over big with the audience.
✨Hold with something
▶️ to accept or agree with something. (#Folksy. Usually in the negative.)
🔻My father doesn't hold with fancy clothes.
🔻I don't hold with too many X rays.
✨Like it or lump it
▶️ either accept it or drop dead. (#Slang and fairly rude. Fixed order.)
🔻I don't care whether you care for my attitude or not. You can just like it or lump it.
🔻This is all thefood you get. Like it or lump it!
✨Resign oneself to something
▶️ to accept something reluctantly.
🔻I finally resigned myself to going to Mexico even though I didn't want to.
🔻Mary resigned herself to her fate.
✨Settle for something
▶️ to agree to accept something (even though something else would be better).
🔻We wanted are done, but settled for a blue one.
🔻Ask your grocer for Wilson's canned corn—the best corn in cans. Don't settle for less.
✨Take one's medicine
▶️ to accept the punishment or the bad fortune that one deserves.
🔻I know I did wrong, and I know I have to take my medicine.
🔻Billy knew he was going to get spanked, and he didn't want to take his medicine.
✨Take something at face value
▶️ to accept something exactly the way it appears to be.
🔻I don't know whether I can take her story at face value, but I will assume that she is not lying.
🔻The committee took the report at face value and approved the suggested changes.
✨Take something in stride
▶️ to accept something as natural or expected.
🔻The argument surprised him, but he took it in stride.
🔻It was a very rude remark, but Mary took it in stride.
✨Take something lying down
▶️ to endure something unpleasant without fighting back.
🔻He insulted me publicly. You don't expect me to take that lying down, do you?
🔻I'm not the kind of person who'll take something like that lying down.
✨Take the bitter with the sweet
▶️ to accept the bad things along with the good things.
🔻We all have disappointments. You have to learn to take the bitter with the sweet.
🔻There are good days and bad days, but every day you take the bitter with the sweet. That's life.
✨Turn thumbs up (on someone or something)
▶️ to accept someone or something; to approve someone or something.
🔻The board of directors turned thumbs up on my proposal and voted to fund the project.
🔻The committee turned thumbs up on Carl as the new manager.
🔻When the boss turned thumbs up, I knew everything was okay.
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⭐️#ACCEPTANCE:
✨Eat one's words
▶️ to have to take back one's statements; to confess that one's predictions were wrong.
🔻You shouldn't say that to me. I'll make you eat your words.
🔻John was wrong about the election and had to eat his words.
✨Face the music
▶️ to receive punishment; to accept the unpleasant results of one's actions.
🔻Mary broke a dining-room window and had to face the music when her father got home.
🔻After failing a math test, Tom had to go home and face the music.
✨Feel at home
▶️ to feel as if one belongs; to feel as if one were in one's home; to feel accepted.
🔻I liked my dormitory room. I really felt at home there.
🔻We will do whatever we can to make you feel at home.
✨Go over big with someone
▶️ to be very much appreciated by someone.
🔻Your jokes did not exactly go over big with my parents.
🔻We hope that the musical will go over big with the audience.
✨Hold with something
▶️ to accept or agree with something. (#Folksy. Usually in the negative.)
🔻My father doesn't hold with fancy clothes.
🔻I don't hold with too many X rays.
✨Like it or lump it
▶️ either accept it or drop dead. (#Slang and fairly rude. Fixed order.)
🔻I don't care whether you care for my attitude or not. You can just like it or lump it.
🔻This is all thefood you get. Like it or lump it!
✨Resign oneself to something
▶️ to accept something reluctantly.
🔻I finally resigned myself to going to Mexico even though I didn't want to.
🔻Mary resigned herself to her fate.
✨Settle for something
▶️ to agree to accept something (even though something else would be better).
🔻We wanted are done, but settled for a blue one.
🔻Ask your grocer for Wilson's canned corn—the best corn in cans. Don't settle for less.
✨Take one's medicine
▶️ to accept the punishment or the bad fortune that one deserves.
🔻I know I did wrong, and I know I have to take my medicine.
🔻Billy knew he was going to get spanked, and he didn't want to take his medicine.
✨Take something at face value
▶️ to accept something exactly the way it appears to be.
🔻I don't know whether I can take her story at face value, but I will assume that she is not lying.
🔻The committee took the report at face value and approved the suggested changes.
✨Take something in stride
▶️ to accept something as natural or expected.
🔻The argument surprised him, but he took it in stride.
🔻It was a very rude remark, but Mary took it in stride.
✨Take something lying down
▶️ to endure something unpleasant without fighting back.
🔻He insulted me publicly. You don't expect me to take that lying down, do you?
🔻I'm not the kind of person who'll take something like that lying down.
✨Take the bitter with the sweet
▶️ to accept the bad things along with the good things.
🔻We all have disappointments. You have to learn to take the bitter with the sweet.
🔻There are good days and bad days, but every day you take the bitter with the sweet. That's life.
✨Turn thumbs up (on someone or something)
▶️ to accept someone or something; to approve someone or something.
🔻The board of directors turned thumbs up on my proposal and voted to fund the project.
🔻The committee turned thumbs up on Carl as the new manager.
🔻When the boss turned thumbs up, I knew everything was okay.
#Thematic_Dictionary
#Essential_American_Idioms
@PMPerfect1