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
Layton	['leitn]
Svenja	SVEN-yah	German
Nanette	na-NET	English
Hlengiwe	-	Southern African, Zulu
Zharko	-	Macedonian
Margalit	-	Hebrew