like it or lump it

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like it or lump it (third-person singular simple present likes it or lumps it, present participle liking it or lumping it, simple past and past participle liked it or lumped it)

1. (colloquial) To accept a situation whether one agrees with it or not.

   We’re going to stay home this year. No holidays. You can like it or lump it.

   • [1901–1903, [George] Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman. A Comedy and a Philosophy, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1903, →OCLC, Act III, page 118:

     I see you dont like that, any of you; but its true, for all that; so if you dont like it you can lump it.]

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