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  1. take one's lumps: Merriam-Webster
  2. take one's lumps: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. take one's lumps: Vocabulary.com
  4. take one's lumps: Wiktionary
  5. take one's lumps, take ones lumps: Dictionary.com
  6. take one's lumps: Rhymezone
  7. take ones lumps: FreeDictionary.org
  8. take one's lumps: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. take one's lumps: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (take one's lumps)

verb:  (slang) To receive physical abuse and to survive.
verb:  (slang, figuratively) To endure through criticism or other adversity.


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