[General] Difference between "I'm ok about sth" and "I'm ok with sth"

[kasamb]

Hello,

What's the difference between "I'm ok with sth" and "I'm ok about sth"? When do you use each of them?
For example, what would you use for:

-"I'm ok ... taking my lumps"
-"I'm ok ... you"
-"I'm ok ... this plan"

Thank you

 

[GoesStation]

In American English, we normally use "with" in this informal idiom. Don't use this idiom in formal writing.

 

[emsr2d2]

Same in BrE. I'm intrigued as to what lumps someone is taking in sentence 1!

 

[Rover_KE]

kasamb, please write OK or okay instead of ok, and something instead of sth.

 

[kasamb]

I'm intrigued as to what lumps someone is taking in sentence 1!

What do you mean?

 

[emsr2d2]

What do you mean?

Your first example sentence is "I'm OK with you taking my lumps". I have no idea what that means.

 

[kasamb]

Your first example sentence is "I'm OK with you taking my lumps". I have no idea what that means.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/take+lumps

 

[emsr2d2]

OK, I have never heard that in my life. However, you seem to have misused it. It refers to someone accepting a punishment themselves, not someone else taking the punishment for them.

"I'm OK with taking my lumps" would work, meaning "I'm happy to accept my punishment".

 

[GoesStation]

Maybe "taking one's lumps" is an American expression. It's quite common over here anyway. I agree that it would be odd to take someone else's lumps.

 

[Rover_KE]

kasamb, I see that you asked the same question here.

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