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roll with the punches en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ride with the punches.
    • You will not to get to control Elon, you have to roll with the punches and channel him. 2023 September 30, Hannah Murphy, “The wildest job in Silicon Valley”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17:
    • Ariana DeBose is doing her “thing” and trying to roll with the punches after this weekend’s BAFTA Film Awards in London. 2023 February 21, Dan Heching, “Ariana DeBose ‘honestly loves’ the BAFTA memes but not the Twitter trolling”, in CNN, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023:
    • When life tries to knock all the wind out of you / You've got to roll, roll, roll with the punches / If all life offers is black and blue / You've got to roll, roll, roll with the punches 2011, Lenka, Ben H. Allen, “Roll with the Punches”, in Two, performed by Lenka:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
rolled with the punches Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
rolled with the punches Tense=Past lexicographic
rolls with the punches Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
rolling with the punches Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

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