take (or grab) the bull by the horns
To deal bravely and decisively with a difficult, dangerous, or unpleasant situation; to deal with a matter in a direct manner, especially to confront a difficulty rather than avoid it.
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take a back seat
Be given a less important position or role.
take a bite out of
Reduce by a significant amount.
take a crap
To defecate.
take a dump
To defecate.
take a fall out of
get the better of
take a flying fuck
To fuck off, go fuck yourself, scram.
take a flying fuck at a rolling donut
To go away; to scram; to fuck off.
take a licking
To suffer a defeat or a beating.
take a shine
To develop a liking or fondness for someone or something.
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 liberties
Treat something freely.
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 biscuit
(UK) To be particularly bad, objectionable, or egregious.
take the cake
(US) To be especially good or outstanding. Alternatively (US) To be particularly bad, objectionable, or egregious.
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 fall
Receive blame or punishment, typically in the place of another person.
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 the piss
(UK) To tease, ridicule, or mock someone.
take time by the forelock
Seize an opportunity.
take to pound town
To engage in rough sexual activity with someone.
take to something like a duck to water
To learn or adapt to something new naturally and easily.
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 the cudgels
Start to support.
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 with a grain of salt
To not take what someone says too seriously; to treat someone's words with a degree of skepticism.
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.
talivan
A portable speed camera inside a police van, moved from place to place to detect speeding motorists.
talk around
To persuade someone by spoken arguments.
talk at
To speak with (someone) without truly listening to their response or interacting meaningfully.
talk dirty
Speak obscenely about sex.
talk down to
To speak to another person in a demeaning or patronizing way.
talk into
To convince (someone) by talking and suggesting.