| 词组 | like it or lump it |
| 释义 | Idiom like it or lump it Theme: ACCEPTANCE either accept it or drop dead. (Slang and fairly rude. Fixed order.)I don't care whether you care for my attitude or not. You can just like it or lump it.This is all the food you get. Like it or lump it! Idiom like it or lump it informal if you tell someone to like it or lump it, you mean they must accept a situation they do not like, because they cannot change it.The fact remains, that's all we're going to pay him and he can like it or lump it.Like it or lump it, romantic fiction is read regularly by thousands. like it or lump itWhether you like it or not, as of a situation that one cannot change. Well, like it or lump it, this old, falling-down hotel is the only one with rooms available this weekend. Like it or lump it!Inf. There is no other choice. Take that or none. John: I don't like this room. It's too small. Bill: Like it or lump it. That's all we've got. Jane: I don't want to be talked to like that. Sue: Well, like it or lump it! That's the way we talk around here. like it or lump itAlso, if you don't like it you can lump it. Whether or not you want to, as in Like it or lump it, we're staying home this summer. The origin of lump in this idiom is unclear; one writer believes it to be a euphemism for stuff it, a not unreasonable conjecture. [Early 1800s] like it or lump itmainly BRITISH, INFORMALPeople say like it or lump it to mean that you have to accept a situation even if you do not like it. This is the way our system works: like it or lump it. If you're a shareholder in the club then you can influence way things are run. But as a paying customer you like it or lump it. Note: You can also say that someone will have to lump it when they have to accept a situation whether they want to or not. When we pointed out they'd taken part of our garden, they said they hadn't even noticed. We just had to lump it. Like it or lump it! exclam. Give up!; Shut up!; Accept it or go away! (see also Lump it!.) If you don’t want to do it my way, like it or lump it! like it or lump itPut up with it, whether or not you like it. An Americanism dating from the early nineteenth century, John Neal used it in The Down-Easters (1833). It was quoted by Dickens (“If you don’t like it, it’s open to you to lump it,” Our Mutual Friend, 1864) and by numerous later writers. The precise source of lump has been lost. One authority suggests it comes from a British dialect word meaning to look sullen; another believes it is a polite version of “stuff it (up your behind).” |
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