Grin and bare it

Note to self: never bring a novel with the words "a marvelous, original mixture of eroticism and poetry" in tiny print on its front cover to a Christian meeting (regardless that "Swell" won the Greek National Book Award for best novel in 2007 and it's about a captain returning home after 12 years at sea). Was ragged about "eroticism" for 15 minutes. I just had to grin and bare it, oops, I meant, bear it.