- to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence
- to swallow one's anger
- to grin and bear it
Characters
- 忍 (忍): to bear; to endure; to tolerate; to restrain oneself
- 气 (氣): gas; air; smell; weather; to make angry; to annoy; to get angry; vital energy; qi
- 吞 (吞): to swallow; to take
- 声 (聲): sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds
Resources
- Wiktionary: 忍气吞声
- MDBG: 忍气吞声
- Examples with 忍气吞声 on Tatoeba
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