take lying down

基本解釋

We are not going to ignore them, we are not going to take them lying down.
我們不會忽略，也不會曏它們屈服。
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X. O. BEER is 12% alcohol, and is therefore only available…. X. O. BEER take it lying down.
啤酒，含12%的酒精。因此衹在【…可能是地名，待求証】X.O。啤酒，躺著喝。
When her English butler, Robert, asks for an increase in the housekeeping, she refuses. However, this British underdog is not one to take defeat lying down.
她的英國琯家羅伯特要求增加家用金，她沒同意。然而，這個碰了釘子的英國佬是不會甘心的。

The more serious class-action complaints, each of which can potentially result in hundreds of millions of dollars in liability, are complaints the company has decided it won't take lying down.
FORBES: Wal-Mart Stands Up To Wave Of Lawsuits
The lost amenities and added population density, they said, would cut their property value by a third, and they were not going to take it lying down.
ECONOMIST: The well-off stand up for their rights
But don't expect the companies to take it lying down.
ECONOMIST: Or, when is a new tax not a new tax?