learn to live with something

learn to live with something
learn to live with something
Fig. to learn to adapt to something unpleasant or painful. •

Finally the doctor told Marion that she was going to have to learn to live with her arthritis.

The floor plan of the house we bought is not as spacious as we had thought, but we will learn to live with it.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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