Fig. [to be] unable to tolerate someone or something; disliking someone or something extremely. (Also with cannot.)I can't stand the sight of cooked carrots.Mr. Jones can't stomach the sight of blood.None of us can stand this place.Nobody can stand Tom when he smokes a cigar.
Also, can't abide or bear or stomach . Thoroughly dislike; be unable to put up with something or someone. For example, I can't stand the sight of her; she's obnoxious, or I can't bear to leave the country, or I can't stomach a filthy kitchen. The oldest of these synonymous expressions is can't abide, which Shakespeare used in 2 Henry IV (3:2): "She could not abide Master Shallow." Can't stand dates from the early 1600; can't bear dates from about 1700 and often but not always is used with an infinitive; can't stomach dates from the late 1600s and today is less common than the others.