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pocket up en · VERB
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(idiomatic, obsolete, transitive) To receive (an insult, an affront, etc.) without open resentment, or without seeking redress.
the two unbelievers began to gather and pocket up their mistake
1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub:Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:we pocketed up our loss
1883, Anne Gilchrist, Mary Lamb:
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