take it on the chin

1. 1.

   undergo failure or defeat

   Broaderfail

Questions about take it on the chin

What does take it on the chin mean?

take it on the chin means "undergo failure or defeat".

Is take it on the chin a common word?

take it on the chin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.