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to handle your dickery

to handle your dickery

9.9
To accept someone's annoying or foolish behavior without complaining
  • phrasal verb
  • Offensive
translation icon : soportar tus gilipolleces
  • She was sadly used to having to handle his dickery at every family dinner.

Examples

  • I can't handle your dickery when I'm already stressed from work.

  • Why should I handle your dickery just because we're friends?

  • Please handle your dickery better next time!

  • I can't handle your dickery anymore.

  • I can't handle your dickery when you keep interrupting me during the meeting.

  • He has to handle his friend's dickery if he wants to keep their friendship strong.

  • Sometimes, I just have to handle your dickery to get through the day.

Synonyms

to tolerate
vsto handle your dickery
290 3.5

Endure something unpleasant without complaining

is more informal and often joking when naming that endurance of annoyance
to put up with
vsto handle your dickery
288 4.3

To accept something unpleasant without complaining

has a playful or pointed tone when describing enduring annoying behaviour
to humor
vsto handle your dickery
  • US
40 4.9

To do what someone wants to keep them happy

focuses on enduring foolish or annoying behaviour rather than pleasing someone
to grin and bear it
vsto handle your dickery
  • Informal
5 6.8

To accept an unpleasant situation without complaining

is aimed at tolerating annoying people, said in a pointed joking way
to suffer fools gladly
vsto handle your dickery
  • Informal
2 9.8

To have patience with people who seem foolish or unable to do their job

is more humorous or pointed when describing tolerance of annoying behaviour

Antonyms

to reject
839 1.9

Refuse to accept someone or something

How Tolerant

to accept
∞ 3.5
to tolerate
56 3.2
to handle your dickery
  • Offensive
9.9
to put up with
288 4.3
to complain
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

handle your dickery infinitive
handled your dickery past
handled your dickery past participle
handling your dickery present participle
handles your dickery third person singular

Morphology

handle + your + dickery

While 'handle' + 'your' are fully compositional, 'dickery' is informal/slang and not a standard dictionary item; its meaning is not immediately obvious to learners who don't know the slang. The formation is partly predictable (dick + -ery suggests behaviour like being a 'dick', analogous to 'trickery'), so learners familiar with the slang and the '-ery' pattern could infer the sense, but many B1 learners would not, making it only partially transparent.

Etymology

Handle your dickery gives a funny picture: to handle means to deal with, and dickery suggests small, silly or annoying tricks someone does. So it means 'to tolerate or put up with' someone's foolish or annoying behavior.