Примеры употребления для take it lying down
1. "If the system fails, people will not take it lying down.
2. Our boys will not take it lying down." The three men also issued a statement calling for a boycott of the state assembly elections.
3. Instead of making it clear that we won‘t take it lying down, the government and people continue to swallow it and do nothing.
4. You cant ravish a tin of sardines. (On the other hand, if you are planning to ravish a tin of sardines, a nice purple satin blindfold is probably quite useful.) Lawrences literary executors are not going to take it lying down; they are writing a letter of bitter complaint to Ann Summers, arguing that the name of Lawrences novel has been traduced.
5. Updated: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 at 1445 hours IST New Delhi, March 7: If the democratic system, including the judiciary, fails, people will not take it lying down, and will resort to extra–legal remedies, according to former Chief Justice of India J S Verma.