take-one-s-lumps

Verb

(third-person singular simple present taking one's lumps, present participle took one's lumps, simple past and past participle taken one's lumps)

(idiomatic) To receive physical abuse and to survive.
(figuratively) To endure through criticism or other adversity.

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