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take a licking

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take a licking

to be defeated or very strongly criticized Their latest album took a licking from the critics, but it's selling well anyway.

Related vocabulary: take a beating

See also: licking, take

take a licking

  (American & Australian informal)

to be defeated or very strongly criticized Their latest album took a licking from the critics, but it's selling well.

See also: licking, take