learn to live with

1. Get used to or accustom oneself to something that is painful, annoying, or unpleasant. For example, The doctor said nothing more could be done about improving her sight; she'd just have to learn to live with it, or Pat decided she didn't like the new sofa but would have to learn to live with it.

Example Sentences

This is a nightmare realization of an ambient fear that people of color and gay folks in this country learn to live with.

From Salon

"I'm still trying to learn to live with it and not having any answers makes me angry."

From BBC

Among the growing piles of neatly stored cardboard, papers and blister packs, she said if the strike went on any longer, she would "learn to live with it".

From BBC

Then you learn to live with it, eventually thriving on it.

From Salon

"It's a moment where your entire life has changed and will never be the same. That's what we have had to learn to live with," says Jane.

From BBC