like it or lump it

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like it or lump it (third-person singular simple present likes it or lumps it, present participle liking it or lumping it, simple past and past participle liked it or lumped it)

  1. (colloquial) To accept a situation whether one agrees with it or not.
    Synonyms: like it or leave it, love it or lump it
    We’re going to stay home this year. No holidays. You can like it or lump it.
    • : Archibald Constable & Co., published 1903, →OCLC, Act III, page 118:
      I see you dont like that, any of you; but its true, for all that; so if you dont like it you can lump it.]
    • 2004, Jean Chapman, chapter 15, in Danced Over the Sea (Philipps-Sinclair; 2), Sutton, London: Severn House Large Print, →ISBN, pages 237–238:
      I’m pussyfooting around you no more – like it or lump it, my father is part of my life, I’m part of him, and I won’t let you pull me in two over this any more.