bear the brunt
take the brunt

We cannot be made to bear the brunt of other people's no.

She was the one who would bear the brunt of it.

They could not say why men seemed to bear the brunt of it.

Someone had to bear the brunt of the loss she felt.

And yet women often bear the brunt of male violence.

I am the one that bears the brunt of this up here.

The schools are being asked to bear the brunt of the cuts.

He would bear the brunt of their defense for those moments.

"But they're going to be bearing the brunt so it's the right place to put them."

And in some cases, much of the resistance comes from people who must bear the brunt.

And the schools themselves will bear the brunt of the financial penalty.

Small businesses do seem to be bearing the brunt of the problem.

At least the porch was able to bear the brunt of it.

"Why do we have to bear the brunt of all this waste?"

This means that young people bear the brunt of adjustment.

God knows I deserve to bear the brunt of this.

"In the end, people have to bear the brunt of those political decisions," he said.

Forced on us here in London, who will certainly bear the brunt.

The poor will also bear the brunt of public spending cuts in health and education.

But Texas is bearing the brunt of the drought, he said.

The kids at risk are going to bear the brunt of all this."

It is the client who bears the brunt of this risk.

A recent report showed how older workers bear the brunt of economic recession.

"And leaving his men to bear the brunt of the assault."

New Jersey, however, may bear the brunt simply because many of the company's employees are in the state.

Someone who can take the brunt of it, if need be.

My friends walked away, but I took the brunt of it.

But that's only because my baby took the brunt of it.

He had twisted, taking the brunt of the fall himself.

His troops would take the brunt of the assault, then.

No team has taken the brunt of that experience more than the Colts.

That poor innocent little child has taken the brunt of everything.

He had let his adversaries take the brunt of the fall.

The shields had taken the brunt of the impact, but they were now down to almost nothing.

He and his men would take the brunt of the Japanese assault.

He fell to the floor hard, his knees taking the brunt of it.

Besides, if anything goes wrong he will take the brunt of the blame, not me.

I'm not going to take the brunt of 300 years."

He took the brunt of the fall on his palms and chest.

The principal members of the cast were the ones who took the brunt.

I want him to take the brunt of it, if anything goes wrong."

"Your squads are going to have to take the brunt of this, especially to start with."

In the end, the offense will take the brunt of the blame for this one.

All right, then, it was his torso that had taken the brunt of the attack.

He continued to let the machine take the brunt of the fury.

This forces your back muscles to take the brunt of the burden.

After all, we have taken the brunt of this alien invasion.

But we're going to take the brunt of it.

Yet there must be someone other than ourselves who should take the brunt of our frustrations.

I guess the left side took the brunt of the explosion with the full tank.