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stomach

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stomach

tv. to tolerate someone or something. (Usually negative.) Spike couldn’t stomach the opera, and he left after the first ten minutes.

See:

• a strong stomach
• An army marches on its stomach
• butterflies in one's stomach
• butterflies in stomach
• can't stand
• cast-iron stomach
• eyes are bigger than belly
• eyes are bigger than one's stomach, one's
• feel sick to stomach
• get sick
• have butterflies in stomach
• have eyes bigger than (one's) stomach
• have no stomach for (something)
• have the stomach for
• no stomach for, have
• not able to stomach
• not have the stomach
• on a full stomach
• on an empty stomach
• one's eyes are bigger than stomach
• pit of stomach
• settle stomach
• sick to one's stomach
• sick to stomach
• sour stomach
• stomach
• strong stomach
• turn one's stomach
• turn someone’s stomach
• turn stomach
• turn your stomach
• way to a man's heart is through his stomach