Table of Contents
- 1 Is it burden to bare or bear?
- 2 What does the phrase your cross to bear mean?
- 3 Is it bare or bear the pain?
- 4 Can you bear with us?
- 5 Who said we all have our crosses to bear?
- 6 Can be brought to bear?
- 7 How do you bear pain?
- 8 Does a tree bear or bare fruit?
- 9 What does it mean to bear someone?
- 10 What does bare with Me Mean?
Is it burden to bare or bear?
Bare means naked, but to bear is to carry something. A bear is also a brown furry animal, but most people keep that one straight. If you can’t bear to remember it all, just imagine a lumbering grizzly carrying a heavy load, and you’ll bear this knowledge with glee!
What does the phrase your cross to bear mean?
When someone has a cross to bear, he can not share that burden with anyone else. A cross to bear describes an onerous task, a difficult relationship, or a particularly stressful situation. The term a cross to bear came into use in the 1500s, and is derived from the story of Jesus’ death in the Gospels.
What does it mean to come to bear?
IDIOM. Come to bear. If something comes to bear on you, you start to feel the pressure or effect of it.
Is it bare or bear the pain?
Bare minimum means “the least possible.” Keep costs to a bare minimum. Bear weight means “support.” The builders designed the structure to bear weight. Bear the pain means “endure the pain.” Ask for an aspirin if you can’t bear the pain.
Can you bear with us?
The verb bare means “to reveal” or “to uncover.” The correct expression, “bear with me,” means “be patient with me.” The speaker asked the audience to bear with her while she searched for the correct graph.
Do we all have a cross to bear?
If you have a cross to bear, you have a responsibility or a difficult situation which you must tolerate. Success has brought astonishing levels of media attention and that is a cross the young player has to bear. It’s not an ideal situation but we all have our crosses to bear.
Who said we all have our crosses to bear?
Quote by Marcus Luttrell: “We all have our crosses to bear.
Can be brought to bear?
formalto try to persuade someone to do something by using your influence or power. bring something to bear on: The company directors brought pressure to bear on him to resign. Synonyms and related words.
What does bring to bare mean?
to put into action or service. The group brought all their strength to bear in trying to remove the car from the mud.
How do you bear pain?
- Get some gentle exercise.
- Breathe right to ease pain.
- Read books and leaflets on pain.
- Counselling can help with pain.
- Distract yourself.
- Share your story about pain.
- The sleep cure for pain.
- Take a course.
Does a tree bear or bare fruit?
Use “bear” with “to bear witness,” “to bear fruit,” and “to bear the brunt.” “Bare” means exposed or naked (e.g., without clothes). For everything else, use “bear.”
What does burden to bare mean?
“Bare” means to remove the covering, to expose (as in baring your secrets to someone). So while “bearing the burden” would be the form most commonly used, if you weren’t carrying it, but removing its cover, then “Baring the burden” would be correct.
What does it mean to bear someone?
bear with someone or something. to be patient with someone or something; to wait upon someone or something. (Especially through difficulties.) Please bear with me for a moment while I try to get this straightened out.
What does bare with Me Mean?
While you may be tempted to use “bare with me,” the verb bare means to reveal or to uncover. So, if you ask someone to “bare with me,” you are, essentially, asking them to reveal or to uncover themselves.