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suck it up

VERB

bite the bullet

Synonyms

WEAK

be forced bow to fate cross the Rubicon face the music have no choice know no alternative leap into the breach pay the piper seize the opportunity stand up and take it swallow the pill take it take one's medicine take the rap

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Is there any way I can reduce my insurance rate, or do I just need to suck it up and shell out the money?

From MarketWatch • Nov. 25, 2025

After all, I am only in the store a few minutes a week and can readily suck it up and ignore the discombobulatingly inane strains of “Peaceful, Easy Feeling” blaring overhead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

Hearing is a sense we can’t physically turn off, and until recently, unless we were willing to cosplay as a construction worker by wearing ear defenders, we just had to suck it up.

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2025

Moscow will need to "suck it up", he added.

From BBC • May 9, 2025

But I suck it up like a Jackson’s supposed to and look her dead in her eyes.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

suck it up

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