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Endure shame drag on

  Explanation: Endure humiliation, struggling to survive. With "tolerance scale drag on."
  Source: Ming Feng Meng, "Awaken the common saying" the thirty-sixth volume: "Patience shame, stealing a living as Fu Chou, who knows treacherous seek romantic. Advise you _set_ up a bubble Mo oath, Zhanzhan blue sky at the top."
  Examples: Women's probably sati, the so is twofold: ... ... a ~, Gouyan breath, Ji Lechang broken mirror, and then have ends, the potential never to look poor, and one death to Ming-chih, who is also the emotional born. ★ Qing Ji Yun "Notes of Cassia West magazine"