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1916 Mining & Engin. World 1 Apr. 660/2 When your candle goes out in the draft And you find your matches all wet..; Take five! Old Trapper, take five!

1918 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 9 Mar. 462/1 If he can save a little time at the beginning and the end of the shift and not ‘take five’ too often, it would be quite possible for him to increase his output by four cars.

1929 Amer. Speech 5 147 If the miner craves a rest while on the job, he takes five, a long enough period for a smoke.

1943 Yank 7 May 3 Six members of a reconnaissance group ‘take 10’ at a railroad station.

1961 G. T. Simon Feeling of Jazz 30 Man, I'm glad they said to take five, because this next arrangement looks rough.

1971 D. Wells & S. Dance Night People ix. 128 Honey Coles, the stage manager, told us to take fifteen.

1973 W. Sheed People will always be Kind vi. 60 ‘Could you go a little faster, Fatman?’.. It was difficult making jokes... ‘O.K. Fatstuff, take five, I was only kidding.’

2002 C. Williams Sugar & Slate 111 Occasionally, drained of energy by the heat, I might stop to buy a coke or a Banks and a packet of biscuits before reaching his veranda; take a five sitting on the bottom shelf of the two tier bench.

2012 Psychologies (U.K. ed.) Apr. 143/2 What stops us taking 10? Guilt, first and foremost—and worry that we're ‘doing nothing’.