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Phrase(s): take something to someone or something
to carry something to someone or something. • Should I take this package to Carol? • Would you take this to the post office?, Phrase(s): take to someone or something
to become fond of or attracted to someone or something. • Mary didn’t take to her new job, and she quit after two weeks. • The puppy seems to take to this new food just fine.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. Have recourse to, go to, as in They took to the woods. [c. 1200] 2. Develop as a habit or steady practice, as in He took to coming home later and later. [c. 1300] 3. Become fond of, like, as in I took to him immediately, or The first time she skied she took to it. This expression, from the mid-1700s, is sometimes expanded to take to it like a duck to water, a simile dating from the late 1800s. 4. take to be. Understand, consider, or assume, as in I took it to be the right entrance. [Mid-1500s] Also see the subsequent entries beginning with TAKE TO.
American Heritage Idioms