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swallow
verb- to easily accept something as true UK, 1594
- — John Ayto, The Oxford Dictionary of Slang, p. 313, 1998
- Now it seems that Sir Humphrey has dusted it down and persuaded David Blunkett (of whom I expected better) to swallow it as gullibly as Jim Hacker. — The Observer, 30 June 2002
- to accept something that has happened without complaint or acknowledgement UK
A shortening of “swallow your pride”. - I guess he had worked out that he just had to swallow, because as sure as night follows day the next scene in the movie would have had him up before someone higher in the pecking order[.] — Ken Lukowiak, Marijuana Time, pp. 260–261, 2000
▶ swallow a dictionary
to be loquacious or sesquipedalian; to habitually use long or erudite words AUSTRALIA- “Kindly do not instruct me in matters pertaining to a private altercation.” The voice said, “Strewth. He’s swallowed a damn dictionary.” — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 63, 1957
- He had no time for blokes who were obviously squash drinkers and book-readers and who talked as if they’d swallowed a blasted dictionary. — Wal Watkins, Race the Lazy River, p. 18, 1963
▶ swallow a gun
to commit suicide by gunshot to the mouth US- He’d probably go home and swallow his Smith & Wesson. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Glitter Dome, p. 3, 1981
▶ swallow spit
to stop talking; to be quiet US- — The Bell (Paducah Tilghman High School), pp. 8–9, 17 December 1993: “Tilghmanism: the concealed language of the hallway”
▶ swallow the olive
to lose your composure and concentration US- It seems Lloyd’s of London has finally “taken the gas.” That’s a golfing term for a player who chokes up or “swallows the olive.” — San Francisco Examiner, p. 6, 5 February 1961
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