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roll with it

adapt calmly to change

If you roll with it, you accept an unexpected situation and adapt without becoming upset.

C1 common mostly spoken

expression

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The restaurant has lost our booking.

It's annoying, but let's roll with it and try the place next door.

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The weather ruined our plans, but we decided to roll with it.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: We rolled on with it when the plans changed.

Say: We rolled with it when the plans changed.

For accepting and adapting to a situation, the idiom is “roll with it.”

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How it fits in a sentence.

roll with it; just roll with the changes

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The weather ruined our plans, but we decided to roll with it.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

roll with it

adapt calmly to change

“The weather ruined our plans, but we decided to roll with it.”

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