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Take a BackseatTo be at a secondary position or to be at a level of inferiority as compared to someone elseRate it:

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take a leaf out of someone's bookTo adopt an idea or practice of another person.Rate it:

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take a long walk off a short pierUsed to tell someone to go away, or that their request will not be met.Rate it:

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take a picture, it will last longeran ironic statement said after being stared at for a long time.Rate it:

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Take a PowderQuickly leaving a place or to sneak out from someoneRate it:

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take a shine to someonetake a shine to someoneRate it:

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take a tiger by the tailLatch-on, accost, challenge, confront someone or something which is dangerous, threatening, vicious, harmful, explosive, oppressive, vindictive.Rate it:

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take afterTo follow someone's example.Rate it:

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take againstTo stop liking someone. Become unfriendly.Rate it:

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take apartTo move someone away from others to be able to talk to, or give them something in private.Rate it:

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take apartTo criticise someone.Rate it:

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take apartTo soundly defeat someone, or a team.Rate it:

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take awayTo make someone leave a place and go somewhere else. Usually not with the person's consent.Rate it:

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take awayTo prevent, or limit, someone from being somewhere, or from doing something.Rate it:

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take backTo cause to remember some past event or time.Rate it:

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take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselvesIf you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things.1750, Chesterfield, letter 5 Feb. (1932) IV. 1500:Old Mr. Lowndes, the famous Secretary of the Treasury, ?used to say?Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.1912, G. B. Shaw, Pygmalion ii. 132:Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.1979, R. Cassilis, Arrow of God, iv. xvii.:Little things, Master Mally. Look after the pennies, Master Mally, and the pounds will look after themselves.1999, Rate it:

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take for a rideto deceive someoneRate it:

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take for grantedTo give little attention to or to underestimate the value of, to fail to appreciate.Rate it:

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Take Off Your Hat to SomeoneAdmiring or praising someone for significant achievementRate it:

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take one's timeTo take more time to do something than is considered acceptable.Rate it:

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take one's timeTo go about something slowly and carefully.Rate it:

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take one's tongue out of someone's assTo stop flattering someone (especially a superior) in an obsequious manner, and to support their every opinion.Rate it:

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take overTo relieve someone temporarily.Rate it:

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take overTo become more successful than someone or something else.Rate it:

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take someone to the graveTo kill someone; to cause someone's death.Rate it:

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Take Someone under Your WingHelping or assisting someoneRate it:

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take someone's head offTo berate.Rate it:

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take someone's pointTo agree with what a person says; to understand a person's argument and be persuaded by it.Rate it:

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take someone's pointTo grasp the essential meaning of what a person is saying.Rate it:

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take someone's word for itTo believe what someone claims.Rate it:

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take the law into one's own handsTo punish someone according to one's own idea of justice and without consideration for the role of law enforcement authorities.Rate it:

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take the wind out of someone's sailsTo discourage someone greatly; to cause someone to lose hope or the will to continue.Rate it:

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Take the Words Right Out of Your MouthTo say something that someone else was about to say or even thinking about itRate it:

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take to the matto confront or argue hard for something or until someone wins; all these ways are proper ways to use the phrase: To take someone or something to the mat or to go to the mat for somethingRate it:

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take up withTo form a close relationship with someone.Rate it:

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talk a blue streakTo talk for a long time, at great length, or to the point of tedium.Rate it:

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talk aboutUsed to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or somethingRate it:

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talk aroundTo persuade someone.Rate it:

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talk like an apothecaryTo use hard or gallipot words: from the assumed gravity and affectation of knowledge generally put on by the gentlemen of this profession, who are commonly as superficial in their learning as they are pedantic in their language.Rate it:

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talk out ofTo talk to someone in order to dissuade them from doing something.Rate it:

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talk overTo persuade someone; to talk around.Rate it:

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talk over someone's headTo communicate something beyond the level of comprehension of the target.Rate it:

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talk someone into somethingTo persuade someone to do something by talking to them.Rate it:

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talk someone under the tableTo bore (someone) with excessive talk.Rate it:

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talk someone's ear offTo talk excessively or far more than is wanted or appreciated.Rate it:

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talk throughTo tell someone step by step how to do something.Rate it:

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talk throughTo comfort someone as they endure trauma; to help someone consider an issue or see certain aspects of it.Rate it:

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tan someone's hideTo beat or spank someone.Rate it:

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target someoneTo select or spot a particular individual for deleterious action, select as a subject for specific reason, or harm. Choose an individual for membership, advertising agenda, positive or negative onslaughts.Rate it:

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tattle taleThe person who calls someone out / tells a piece of sensitive information to an authority.Rate it:

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