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a cross (someone has) to bear (British & Australian, American & Australian) an unpleasant situation or responsibility that you must accept because you cannot change it. Someone has to look after mother and because I live the closest it's a cross I have to bear. |
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personal safety," (18) uttering cliches such as "Your life is only valuable if it's given away" (18) and "This is your cross to bear," (18) or being counseled by priests to "rejoice in sufferings because they bring me closer to Jesus" (21). I rejoice in that and wish it had come decades earlier, but vulgarisms such as the above have proved a prickly cross to bear for converts like myself. The decision to replace the Los Angeles County seal with a ``politically correct'' version has left county officials with a cross to bear. |
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