on sufferance

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Unwillinglyagreedto orbarelytolerated.I wasn't whole-hearted about the decision but couldn't think of a better one, so went along with iton sufferancefor the time being.1892,Walter Besant, chapter III, inThe Ivory Gate[…], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers,[…],→OCLC:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[…]Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were thereon sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.

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