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  • 11take for a ride — {v. phr.}, {slang} 1. To take out in a car intending to murder. * /The gang leader decided that the informer must be taken for a ride./ 2. To play a trick on; fool. * /The girls told Linda that a movie star was visiting the school, but she did… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 12take for granted — verb a) To assume something to be true without verification or proof. Let it be considered a delicate intimation on the part of the historian that he is going back to the town in which Oliver Twist was born; the reader taking it for granted that… …

    Wiktionary

  • 13take for — phrasal to suppose to be; especially to suppose mistakenly to be …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 14take for a ride — phrasal trick, cheat …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 15take for granted — phrasal 1. to assume as true, real, or expected 2. to value too lightly …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 16Take — Take, v. t. [imp. {Took} (t[oo^]k); p. p. {Taken} (t[=a]k n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. t[=e]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.] 1. In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 17take — vb took, tak·en, tak·ing vt 1 a: to obtain control, custody, or possession of often by assertive or intentional means b: to seize or interfere with the use of (property) by governmental authority; specif: to acquire title to for public use by… …

    Law dictionary

  • 18for a ride — See: TAKE FOR A RIDE …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 19for a ride — See: TAKE FOR A RIDE …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 20take — takable, takeable, adj. taker, n. /tayk/, v., took, taken, taking, n. v.t. 1. to get into one s hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write. 2. to hold, grasp, or grip: to take a book …

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