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Also, if you don't like it you can lump it . Whether or not you want to, as in Like it or lump it, we're staying home this summer . The origin of lump in this idiom is unclear; one writer believes it to be a euphemism for stuff it , a not unreasonable conjecture. [Early 1800s]Advertisement
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