bear the brunt of
to suffer the most damage or pain
TRANSLATION
bear the brunt of = das meiste abbekommen, die volle Wucht ertragen --- GOOGLE INDEX bear the brunt of: approximately 11,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Civilians BEAR THE BRUNT of war
(BBC News - Headline)
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"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to BEAR THE BRUNT of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons."
- African American author Toni Morrison
(BBC News - Headline)
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"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to BEAR THE BRUNT of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons."
- African American author Toni Morrison
Did you
know?
bear the brunt of
idiom
- to get the greater amount or larger part of something bad
(Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms)
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The expression "bear the brunt of" uses bear in the sense of "accepting or enduring" combined with "brunt," which is "the main force of something unpleasant" like a military attack, a storm or a economic depression.
Although written and pronounced the same, the verb "bear" and the noun "bear" evolved etymologically from two different sources. The verb has many different contexts, including: to hold, to support, to have a specific characteristic, to carry oneself, to produce, to give birth to. It evolved from the Old English "beran," meaning to bring forth, produce and is related to the German "gebären" (give birth to).
The noun bear, as in the animal, stems from the Old English "bera" and the Proto-Germanic "beron" - the brown one. It is interesting to note that bear "bears" no resemblance to the Greek and Latin words for bear: arktos and ursus. This is thought to stem from the odd taboos that hunters in northern Europe once had when it came to calling out wild animal names. Thus many Greek and Latin animal names were replaced in some languages with phrases like "medved," which is Russian for honey-eater or the Welsh word for bear: "honey-pig."
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"When market speculators drive up the price of oil, car owners bear the brunt of it by higher prices at the pump."
idiom
- to get the greater amount or larger part of something bad
(Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms)
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The expression "bear the brunt of" uses bear in the sense of "accepting or enduring" combined with "brunt," which is "the main force of something unpleasant" like a military attack, a storm or a economic depression.
Although written and pronounced the same, the verb "bear" and the noun "bear" evolved etymologically from two different sources. The verb has many different contexts, including: to hold, to support, to have a specific characteristic, to carry oneself, to produce, to give birth to. It evolved from the Old English "beran," meaning to bring forth, produce and is related to the German "gebären" (give birth to).
The noun bear, as in the animal, stems from the Old English "bera" and the Proto-Germanic "beron" - the brown one. It is interesting to note that bear "bears" no resemblance to the Greek and Latin words for bear: arktos and ursus. This is thought to stem from the odd taboos that hunters in northern Europe once had when it came to calling out wild animal names. Thus many Greek and Latin animal names were replaced in some languages with phrases like "medved," which is Russian for honey-eater or the Welsh word for bear: "honey-pig."
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"When market speculators drive up the price of oil, car owners bear the brunt of it by higher prices at the pump."
