bear cross

bear (one's) cross

To cope with a burden or challenging situation. I'm sure it's not easy to live with such a serious illness, but she bears her cross with such humor and grace.
See also: bear, cross
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bear one's cross

 and carry one's cross
Fig. to handle or cope with one's burden; to endure one's difficulties. (This is a biblical theme. It is always used figuratively except in the biblical context.) It's a very painful disease, but I'll bear my cross. I can't help you with it. You'll just have to carry your own cross.
See also: bear, cross
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • bear (one's) cross
  • come up smiling
  • (it's) all uphill from here
  • be no picnic
  • be not a bed of roses
  • be up a/the creek (without a paddle)
  • be up the creek without a paddle
  • get into a (tight) spot
  • a hair in the butter
  • conk-buster
References in classic literature
If a bear crosses my path, he is soon the mere ghost of Bruin.
The Prairie
Burns issuing out of the companion on all fours till he attempted to stand up, and even then the idea of a bear crossed my mind first.
The Shadow Line
After motorists witnessed a young Formosan black bear cross a mountain road, the forestry service in Hualien County managed to catch the animal and its mother in a picture.
Taiwan locates Formosan black bear mother-and-child duo
EVERYONE has a cross to bear but making a Russian bear cross may not be the wisest move.
Fangs for pawsome poses
Mr Bostock, of Brisbane Road, Christchurch and Mr Marshall, of Ringwood Road, Bear Cross, Bournemouth, denied negligence, saying their duty was to provide a reasonably suitable and safe course for the cross-country event which attracted a field of 130 riders.
Tragic bike man loses bid for damages
A biogeographer consulting for the Rocky Mountain conservation group American Wildlands, Walker is trying to get public lands managers and people who care about wildlife to answer a deceptively simple question: Why does a bear cross the road?
Where the wild things are
I saw one small bear cross 43 yards behind the bait site one day, and I saw a big chocolate bear cross on a trail about 73 yards up I he ridge on a not her day.
The beginner and the bear: a novice bowhunter gets a lesson in bowhunting public-land bruins over bait
Residents of Glendale Avenue first saw the bear cross through their neighborhood about 1:45 p.m.
It's July, and silly season is in full force; Bears, drunk cowboy enliven police work
Byline: Orla BANNON ..HDLN: Kernan happy to bear Cross of past glories
AIB ALL-IRELAND SEMI: CROSSMAGLEN v ST BRIGID'S WEIGHT OF EXPECTATION INSPIRES PAUL
Lilly Koko Tanner was thrown out of her pushchair and into the air as her mother Sarah Tanner was carried on the car's bonnet in the incident in Bear Cross, Dorset, on February 8.
Capital rail link plans
Police in Bournemouth said: "She had been in the Bear Cross pub and we took away CCTV footage."
Tot killed in buggy
The bear crossed the Rhine, moved through Germany and even took part in the Berlin victory parade.
WHO BEARS WINS; He's the hero teddy who helped Allies defeat Hitler EXCLUSIVE
The polar bear crossed the vast Taymyr Peninsula and travelled about 1,500 km (932 miles) from the islands in Kara Sea to the city of Norilsk.
Lost polar bear strolls around city after walking 1,000 miles in search of food; The exhausted animal was filmed wandering around Norilsk in Russia, with observers wondering how it managed to travel such a distance
As we began our stalk, the bear crossed a high spot in the pit where his long body confirmed he was well worth our best effort.
FIRST BRUIN AND BROTHERHOOD: WHEN HUNTING A SPECIES FOR THE FIRST TIME; THE LESSONS COME FROM MANY DIRECTIONS