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Phrase(s): take someone, something, or an animal in(side) to transport someone, something, or an animal to shelter or inside something. • Please take your little brother in. It’s starting to rain. • Take the dog inside when you go.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Phrase(s): take someone in 1. to give someone shelter. (See also take something in.) • Do you think you could take me in for the night? • I don’t take in strangers. 2. Go to suck someone in.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Phrase(s): take something in 1. to reduce the size of a garment. • This is too big. I’ll have to take it in around the waist. • I’ll have to take in these pants. 2. to view and study something; to attend something involving viewing. • The mountains are so beautiful! I need an hour or so to take it all in. • I want to sit here a minute and take in the view. • Would you like to take in a movie? 3. to receive money as payment or proceeds. • How much did we take in today? • The box office took nearly a thousand dollars in within just the last hour. 4. to receive something into the mind, usually visually. • Could you take those explanations in? I couldn’t. • I could hardly take in everything she said. 5. to inhale, drink, or eat something. • I think I’ll go for a walk and take some fresh air in. • Jane was very ill, but she managed to take in some fresh air from the open window. 6. Go to take something into some place.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Phrase(s): take someone or an animal in to provide shelter for someone or an animal. • When I needed a place to live, my uncle took me in. • Mrs. Wilson took in the lonely little dog and gave it a loving home.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. Admit, receive as a guest or employee, as in They offered to take in two of the orphaned children. [First half of 1500s] 2. Reduce in size, make smaller or shorter, as in I've lost some weight so I'll have to take in my clothes. [Early 1500s] 3. Include or constitute, as in This list takes in all the members, past and present. [Mid-1600s] 4. Understand, as in I couldn't take in all that French dialogue in the movie. [Second half of 1600s] 5. Deceive, swindle, as in That alleged fundraiser took me in completely. [First half of 1700s] 6. Look at thoroughly, as in We want to take in all the sights. [First half of 1700s] 7. Accept work to be done at home, as in His grandmother took in washing to support her children. [First half of 1800s] 8. Receive as proceeds, as in We had a good audience; how much did we take in? [Late 1800s] Also see the following entries beginning with TAKE IN.
American Heritage Idioms