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		leoc on May 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Put that in your pipe and smoke it” "ponder (and put up with!) what has been said or done, even if it is unwelcome" would be a more correct definition. It's basically equivalent to the Americanism "chew on that". It can be pretty neutral or quite hostile, depending on how unhappy you think the listener is going to be with the news. I'm not sure why this caught HN's interest to be honest, but it's no harm. If you want more, you can read P.W. Joyce: https://archive.org/details/englishaswespeak00joycuoft/

mc32 on May 22, 2021 [–]

Pretty much. Where I grew up it was more or less equivalent to "ain't that a bitch!"

The boss cut our hours and gave them to his cousin! (Now put that in your pipe and smoke it)

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