grit one's teeth
Verb
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Verb
- To clench one's teeth together tightly because of pain, anger, or frustration.
- (idiom) To face up to a difficult or disagreeable situation and deal with it.
- There's a storm coming, so I grit my teeth and start rowing with all my might.
- Synonyms: face up to, bite the bullet, grin and bear it, suck it up
- French: serrer les dents
- Italian: digrignare i denti, stringere i denti
- Russian: сти́скивать зу́бы
- French: serrer les dents
- German: die Zähne zusammenbeißen
- Italian: stringere i denti
- Russian: сти́скивать зу́бы
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