take lying down

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Verb

take lying down (third-person singular simple present takes lying down, present participle taking lying down, simple past took lying down, past participle taken lying down)

1. (transitive) To endure without complaint or protest.

   I don't know what they expect, but I am certainly not going to take this lying down.

   • 2020 June 4, UCA News Reporter, “Thai activists get creative to mark Tianamen massacre”, in La Croix International‎^[1], Bayard, retrieved 2020-06-05:

     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.

Translations

endure without complaint

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: niellä purematta
• French: accepter sans protester, accepter sans broncher, accepter sans rien dire
• Polish: po cichu znosić impf
• Portuguese: engolir (pt)