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(verb) to manage a situation, problem, or person

Example Sentence:

A: Do you find it difficult being a doctor?
B: No, I can handle the stress very easily.

A: Do you need some help?
B: No, I can handle it.

I’m not able to handle my wife’s best friend. She is so annoying!

I don’t think I could handle my hurt feelings if I got rejected for this job.

Similar idioms:

  1. fly off the handle
  2. handle (2)
  3. stomach
  4. go through
  5. moonlight
  6. wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve
  7. fall through
  8. come through for someone
  9. no hard feelings
  10. scrape
  11. grab the bull by the horns
  12. trainwreck
  13. get through

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