grin and bear it

/ɡɹˈɪn and bˈeə ɪt/

/ɡɹˈɪn ænd bˈɛɹ ɪt/

[phrase]

to grin and bear it

[PHRASE]

to accept or tolerate a difficult or undesirable situation that one cannot change without complaint

Examples

1. She just grins and bears it all.

2. To teach it anyway, and tell their students to just grin and bear it?

3. This means that whenever we feel quote unquote bad, we struggle to accept it, often stuffing that emotion down and taking the whole grin and bear it motto to heart.

4. We can slowly be conditioned to literally grin and bear it even though we know that humans, research shows that humans cannot improve their mood by simply faking it and smiling.