grin
To make a big smile that shows your teeth.
To smile broadly, often showing the teeth, usually as an expression of happiness, amusement, or friendliness.
A big smile that shows your teeth.
A broad smile in which the teeth are visible, typically expressing pleasure, amusement, or friendliness.
- Base: grin
- Plural: grins
- Base: grin
- 3rd Person Singular: grins
- Present Participle: grinning
- Past: grinned
- Irregular present participle: grinning Verb
- Irregular past: grinned Verb
ear-to-ear grin
1A very wide smile
A smile so wide it looks like it goes from one ear to the other.
- She had an ear-to-ear grin after hearing the news.
- His ear-to-ear grin showed how happy he was.
wipe the grin off [someone's] face
1Cause someone to stop smiling smugly
To make someone stop looking happy or proud by doing or saying something.
- Losing the game wiped the grin off his face.
- That comment wiped the grin off her face quickly.
grin and bear it
1Accept unpleasantness without complaint
To accept something bad without saying anything, even if you don't like it.
- The job is tough, but I just grin and bear it.
- He didn't like the decision, but he grinned and bore it.
grin and bear it
1accept something unpleasant patiently
to accept something bad and not complain
- The flight was delayed again, but we just had to grin and bear it.
- He hates the new schedule, yet he’s decided to grin and bear it for now.
- We can’t change it, so we must grin and bear it.
grin and bear it
2Endure something unpleasant quietly
To accept something bad without complaining, even if you do not like it.
- The meeting was boring, but I had to grin and bear it.
- Sometimes you just have to grin and bear it when things go wrong.