to upset, to hurt, to pain, to hurt (someone's) feelings; to look pitiful, to be pathetic [with à ‘to someone’] (idiomatically translated as English feel sorry for with subject and object reversed)
to make a virtue of necessity; to do what one must without complaint; to grin and bear it, to put on a brave face, to make the best of a bad job, to take the rough with the smooth
to make a lot of sales, to make profit, to do good business, to rake it in; to do a lot of whatever one is required to do, to smash one's targets, to keep one's stats high (with the implication that there is a focus on quantity to the detriment of quality)
to be in front of, face, front; to oppose oneself (to something), to stand up against; to square up; to deal with, to face up to, to meet the challenge of, to man up against