A dear friend visited me from Auckland, after visiting India. He happened to use this phrase, about the common man in India getting used to "sucking it up" about the non-governance that successive governments have indulged in so far. I got to thinking about the origins of this phrase. Here it is: when pilots in the World War 2 happened to vomit into their Oxygen masks, they had two options - suck up the vomit and continue breathing or die of the acidic fumes. Naturally, those braves made the sensible choice and lived to fight another day.
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