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Q: Ffs which is correct?
The saying " Grin and bear it or bare it" ?
Which is the correct one?
6 years 34 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment - China
If you grin and bear something, you put up with it.
If you grin and bare it, depending upon where you are, you may be arrested.
If you grin and bear something, you put up with it.
If you grin and bare it, depending upon where you are, you may be arrested.
The best thing to do in those grin and bear it situations is to grin and beer it. 
If you put some thought into it..the use of "bear" in the idiom, means to endure hardship regardless of suffering...using "bare" means smile and show it for all to see....which have similar but not identical implications...
Personally, I prefer the BEER OPTION first and then the bare option. can bear with the consequences later.
Stiggs:
Mmmmm beeeer...the cause of, and solution to all my problems.
According to the interwebs, it's 'bear' - as in, to suffer through something.
However, I can see how 'bare' would work... bare your soul, lay bare the honest truth... etc
Stiggs:
"Suffer through something"... like a prostate exam or STD test for example? I think both bare and bear would work in that situation.
What did Hemingway say to the Grizzly as he leveled his sights on him?
'Grin and Bear it!' haha
