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To endure pain, adversity, disappointment, or misfortune with good humor and stoic patience.
"We had an eight-hour flight delay, so we decided to grin and bear it over airport coffee."
"Sometimes life hands you an unfair curveball and all you can do is grin and bear it."
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Employs animal behavior or imagery ('bear') to express figurative human conduct.
Late 18th-century British nautical expression popularized in literature (Erasmus Darwin, 1794), meaning to bear hardships with an upbeat countenance rather than complaints.
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