Those words should be so unacceptable to the person as to eliminate the words from the vocabulary all together. The implication of the cliche is for us to disregard our health and harmony we must maintain with nature. The lack of consonance with nature is catastrophic to our person. The reminders to correct the imbalance are endless. Each time we display a negative posture, it is a signal that the outburst insists on an investigation.
Men are much worse at holding pain than women, by far.
The very meaning of being a man is to isolate our mind from ones emotion. Holding pain, is more a condition of social acceptance than that of the design of the human body. Balance is a necessity in a corporeal and temporal reality. We can afford some imbalance, but only to a specified degree before the ravages of the imbalance alter our relationship with the world. The day of our birth we are subject to the rigors of human life.