on sufferance
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- (idiomatic) Unwillingly agreed to or barely tolerated.
- I wasn't whole-hearted about the decision but couldn't think of a better one, so went along with it on sufferance for the time being.
- Russian: скрепя́ се́рдце
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