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take lying down

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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, archived from the original on 5 June 2020:
      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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