| 单词 | bear the brunt |
| 释义 | bear the bruntSEE SYNONYMS FOR bear the brunt ON THESAURUS.COM Put up with the worst of some bad circumstance, as in It was the secretary who had to bear the brunt of the doctor's anger. This idiom uses brunt in the sense of “the main force of an enemy's attack,” which was sustained by the front lines of the defenders. [Second half of 1700s] Words nearby bear the bruntbear's-breech, bear's-ear, bear's-foot, bearskin, bear's-paw, bear the brunt, bear up, bear with, bearwood, Beas, beast The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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