单词 | take root |
释义 | take rootSEE SYNONYMS FOR take root ON THESAURUS.COM Become established or fixed, as in We're not sure how the movement took root, but it did so very rapidly. This idiom transfers the establishment of a plant, whose roots settle into the earth, to other matters. [Late 1500s] Words nearby take roottake place, take potluck, take pride in, taker, taker-in, take root, take shape, take sick, take sides, take some doing, take someone at his or her word The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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