Used To Meaning
(idiomatic, with noun phrase) Accustomed to, tolerant or accepting of.
Example: I am used to cleaning up other people’s mess.  I became used to his ways.‎
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, Mr. Pratt's Patients:
“Well,†I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.†¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
He was shivering a little, for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any protection to him.
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