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31take for a ride — 1) play a trick on or fool someone, take unfair advantage of someone I was taken for a ride by the used car salesman. The car that I bought is not very good. 2) (smb) cheat, swindle I think that they really took him for a ride when he was… …
32take for granted — 1》 fail to appreciate through overfamiliarity. 2》 (take something for granted) assume that something is true. → grant …
33take 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… …
34take for a ride — vp To drive someone away to kill. The capo ordered that the informer be taken for a ride. 1920s …
35take for granted — expect, assume His support cannot be taken for granted. We must ask him …
36take for a ride — to murder You bundled your victim into a car and killed him in a secluded place: ... taken for a ride. His death is attributed... (Lavine, 1930) Whence the current figurative meaning, to cheat …
37take for granted — assume something is a certain way or is correct I took it for granted that you knew him. Otherwise I would have introduced you …
38take for — phrasal to suppose to be; especially to suppose mistakenly to be …
39take for — (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To mistake] Syn. misapprehend, misunderstand, err; see mistake . 2. [To assume] Syn. presuppose, infer, accept; see assume 1 …
40take for — accidentally think something to be; think something is what it s not …