| 词汇 | bear the brunt |
| 词源 | bear the brunt. Brunt is an old word for the main force of an army and the expression to bear the brunt has been used since at least the early 1400s in the sense of to take the main force of an enemy attack. Today it means to bear the worst of anything. |
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