kiss the rod

To accept punishment passively. As a child, I always found it best to just kiss the rod—arguing with my parents always made the situation worse.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
'Uriyah	-	Biblical Hebrew
Nikephoros	-	Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
Zhivko	-	Bulgarian, Macedonian
Vickie	['viki]
YalÇIn	-	Turkish
Andrijana	-	Croatian, Serbian