resign oneself

resign oneself
{v. phr.} To stop arguing; accept something which cannot be changed. * /When Jane's father explained that he could not afford to buy her a new bicycle, she finally resigned herself to riding the old one./ Compare: GIVE UP.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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