pocket up
English
Verb
pocket up (third-person singular simple present pockets up, present participle pocketing up, simple past and past participle pocketed up)
- (idiomatic, transitive, obsolete) To receive (an insult, an affront, etc.) without open resentment, or without seeking redress.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
- Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs
- 1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
- the two unbelievers began to gather and pocket up their mistake
- 1883, Anne Gilchrist, Mary Lamb
- we pocketed up our loss
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