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(to) put up with: to endure someone or something without complaint.

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I can’t put up with her children any longer.

This machine is very awful. I can’t put up with it any longer.

He is very impolite, and I can’ put up with him.

(to) pay (someone) a compliment: to give someone a compliment (saying

something nice about him/her).

He paid his girlfriend a compliment on her new haircut.

The professor paid her a compliment about her well-written thesis.

Pain in the neck: an annoying thing or person.

Those little kids are a real pain in the neck.

The barking dog is such a pain in the neck.

Paint the town red: to go out and have a great time.

We’re planning to paint the town red tonight.

We painted the town red last night for my dad’s 60

th

birthday.