what does take lying down mean?
TAKE LYING DOWN as VERB
- Meaning
- suffer without protest
- suffer or endure passively
Usage Example(s)
- I won”t take this insult lying down
Hypernyms(s) take lying down is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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