grit your teeth
to press your top and bottom teeth together, often in anger:
He gritted his teeth in silent fury.
C2 to accept a difficult situation and deal with it in a determined way:
We had to grit our teeth and agree with their conditions because we wanted the contract.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Anger and displeasure
- acrimonious
- anger
- animus
- annoyance
- bad feeling
- flap
- fuss
- get the hump idiom
- gorge
- grit
- grudge
- hard feelings idiom
- hissy fit
- irritation
- resent
- resentful
- slow burn
- sour grapes idiom
- spite
- tantrum
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Tolerating and enduring