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vb. (context idiomatic English) To accept a punishment or an injury and not act out revenge or retaliate.
Usage examples of "turn the other cheek".
Others less inclined to turn the other cheek forthrightly assign the blame to the Vietnamese Communists alone, denouncing the anti-American extremists who labor to detect lingering ambiguities.
Including Yamato, who always seemed willing to turn the other cheek and let someone slug the president just once.
But it was just like Jon to turn the other cheek and render good for evil.
From that perch of safety, he was peppering Franconia with pamphlets asserting that Christianity required that believers who had been offended turn the other cheek and forgive seventy times seven.
They'll eat any amount of shit, smile like it's filet mignon and ask for seconds, turn the other cheek, then bite _you_ on the ass.