take a licking
To suffer a defeat or a beating.
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Expressions you’ll hear in the US — distinctly American usage first, then widespread staples.
take across
To go, to proceed.
take after
To resemble (a parent or ancestor) in appearance or habit.
take against
To stop liking or supporting someone; to become unfriendly towards.
take apart
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, apart. — To dismantle something into its component pieces.
take away
To remove something and put it in a different place.
take away from
To subtract a quality from; make something seem not so good or interesting.
take back
To retract or withdraw (an earlier statement).
take down
To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
take for
To regard as.
take from behind
To attack from behind.
take gas
To be knocked off one's surfboard by a wave.
take it out in
To accept as payment.
take it out of
To enervate or make tired; to sap the strength or vitality of.
take one's lumps
To receive physical abuse and to survive.
take one's tongue out of someone's ass
To stop flattering someone (especially a superior) in an obsequious manner and supporting their every opinion.
take over
To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
take something to the head
To consume or ingest (e.g. food, drink, drugs, etc.) through the mouth or by snorting; to take.
Take Thatter
A member of the English boy band Take That.
take the cash and let the credit go
Exploit and enjoy the opportunities and pleasures available here and now and do not invest effort pursuing prospective future gratifications.
take the gap
Synonym of gap it (“leave Rhodesia”).
take the L
To take the loss: to lose a game or competition and to accept that fact; to make a mistake or to otherwise be beset with unfortunate circumstances and recognize the outcome.
take to pound town
To engage in rough sexual activity with someone.
take under
To bring to insolvency; to drive (a business) into financial distress.
take up
To lift; to raise. — To pick up.
take up for
To support, as in an argument; to defend the stance or character of.
take up with
To form a close relationship with (someone).
take upon oneself
To assume personal responsibility for.
take with
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, with.
take your change out of that
Jeering remark accompanying a rejoinder or a physical blow.
take your oil
Accept the situation and stop complaining.
takedown
A taking down: the arrest of a suspect by a police officer.
takeover
An event at which teens gather in public and act out; a street takeover.
tale
The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.
talibangelical
An overzealous evangelical Christian, especially one who espouses strong right-wing views.
talibaptist
A fundamentalist Christian.
talk around
To persuade someone by spoken arguments.
talk at
To speak with (someone) without truly listening to their response or interacting meaningfully.
talk down to
To speak to another person in a demeaning or patronizing way.
talk into
To convince (someone) by talking and suggesting.
talk like a book
To talk pedantically, or using excessively difficult or literary words.
talk out
To resolve (a problem) by talking about it.
talk out of
To talk to someone in order to dissuade them from doing something.
talk out one's ass
Synonym of talk out of one's ass.
talk over
To discuss; to converse about a matter or issue.
talk past
To talk at cross purposes with; to speak in such a way that a listener fails to understand one's meaning.
talk shit
To untruthfully speak of another in a belittling, deprecative, slighting manner, either in person or in absentia.
talk shit, get hit
Speaking disrespectfully of someone or lying in belittling or derogating ways will result in physical violence.
talk through
To tell (someone) step by step how to do something.
talk to God on the big white telephone
To vomit into a toilet.
talk to Ralph on the big white telephone
To vomit into a toilet.
talk to the fist
Synonym of talk to the hand.
talk to the hand
Used to dismiss another person's argument by indicating that one is not prepared to hear or read anything further from that person. It is often used while simultaneously holding up the hand with the palm facing the speaker.
talk-about-able
That can be talked about; discussable.
talkloid
The practice of producing speech using singing voice synthesis software, such as Vocaloid.
tall trees catch much wind
People in high-profile, successful, or prominent positions are more liable to attract scrutiny, jealousy, criticism, or challenges.
tally on
To man a rope for hauling, the men standing in a line or tail
tally up
To count or sum; to add up.
talmbout
Pronunciation spelling of talking about.
talmudvision
Television programming, regarded as dominated by Jewish interests.