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lying down
Idioms and Phrases
see take lying down . Also see lie down .Example Sentences
The party is calling on the government to launch an advertising blitz to send a "collective message" that the UK "won't take Trump's tariffs lying down".
But I am now very worried that the corpse is Rick because there is no way Jim is going to take being shoved over lying down.
Queen kaMayisela did not take any of this lying down, instituting separate court action to halt the wedding, which was postponed as a result.
But the opposition is awake and clear-eyed about what they are doing to our country and they aren't going to take it lying down.
He said he was confined to lying down in a darkened room for at least six months, because any light coming in was painful and the headaches were "horrific".
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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