put that in your pipe and smoke it
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9.9
- idiom
- Informal
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acéptalo
- You didn't believe I could do it? Well, put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Examples
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I got the job, so put that in your pipe and smoke it!
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If you don't believe I can do it, just watch me—put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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We won the debate, so put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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Just put that in your pipe and smoke it!
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When she heard his achievements, she had no choice but to put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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He always criticized her ideas, but after her presentation, he finally had to put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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After the team won the championship, the coach told the critics to put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Synonyms
146
7.2
To accept something unpleasant without protest
26
9.9
To tell someone to accept bad news or defeat without complaining
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6.8
To accept an unpleasant situation without complaining
To finally understand or accept something difficult
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
put + that + in + your + pipe + and + smoke + it
The phrase evokes a literal action (place something in a pipe and smoke it) but the intended meaning — telling someone to accept or put up with a fact — cannot be derived from the literal meanings of the constituents. This is a culturally specific, metaphorical idiom whose overall sense is not predictable from 'put', 'pipe' and 'smoke', so a B1 learner who only knows the component words would not reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Put that in your pipe and smoke it comes from the image of packing strong tobacco into a pipe and then smoking it, which means you keep and accept something bitter. So today it is used to tell someone to 'accept a fact' even if they do not like it.