Is it "bare with me" or "bear with me"?
"Bear with me." The phrase means endure — and bear is the word for enduring.
A little morei
Bear carries the sense of holding up under something — patience, weight, difficulty. Bare means uncovered. "Bare with me" accidentally asks the reader to remove their clothes — the kind of slip a careful editor will catch.
The full entryii
Confusables
Bare vs. Bear
Uncovered versus the animal or to carry.
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