sit and take it

“When the government tries to steal the election again and they think we’ll just sit and take it … It won’t be like the last time … Just remember, they started it … We just wanted to be left alone … We prefer ballots over bullets … But …”

That was when Hamas would periodically launch rockets into Israel, while the Israelis were expected to just sit and take it.

“Maybe we get a big garbage can that he can sit and take it up there or something. And I’m being serious, by the way. It’s funny, but I am being serious.”

Murphy didn’t announce any rollback to the second of three stages of reopening, but he said the administration wouldn’t “sit and take it much longer.”

The powerful and presiding are supposed, under this new regime, to have to sit and take it before surrendering to whatever demands may be on the day's list of complaints.