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What does grin and bear it mean?

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Verb
  1. To endure a difficult or disagreeable situation with good humour.
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So you just grin and bear it and somehow muddle your way through, always focusing on your kid's desire to have a good day with the other parent.
Your cheapest option will always be to grin and bear it in coach, but if your goal is value, a free or cheap upper-class seat will make your flight that much more enjoyable.
I told her I had it for years and although it had gotten much worse with pregnancy there was nothing to do but grin and bear it.
Despite medical certificates requesting other duties, disabled workers were put on compo or forced to grin and bear it.
It is Charles's job to appear in front of the cameras, grin and bear it and answer sometimes unbearably inane questions with whatever panache he can muster.
Yet, the government is applauding itself and saying we will get through all of this, that we should just grin and bear it.

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