take lying down

1. 1.

   suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively

   “I won't take this insult lying down”

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Questions about take lying down

What does take lying down mean?

take lying down means "suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively".

Is take lying down a common word?

take lying down 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.