bear the brunt
Put up with the worst of some bad circumstance, as in It was the secretary who had to bear the brunt of the doctor's anger. This idiom uses brunt in the sense of “the main force of an enemy's attack,” which was sustained by the front lines of the defenders. [Second half of 1700s]
Words nearby bear the brunt
bear one's cross,
bear out,
bear paw,
bear raid,
bear river,
bear the brunt,
bear up,
bear with,
bear's-breech,
bear's-ear,
bear's-foot