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today so today we're talking about
advanced phrases with take
to take something so as always i'm going
to go through them one by one and then
i'm going to give you some examples as
to how to use them
again we've got 10 particular phrases so
let's start
take your breath away
take your breath away to take something
for granted take something for granted
take it as given take it as given
to take a hammering or to take a beating
take it on the chin
take your or somebody's mind off
something
take it out on someone
to take credit for something
to take someone to the cleaners
take it or leave it take it or leave it
okay so 10 particular phrases advanced
phrases using take so let's go back to
them and give you some examples so
number one to take your breath away well
when something takes your breath away
you get a surprise or a shock or
something that startles you so when you
climb up to the top of that mountain the
view will take your breath away oh it's
absolutely gorgeous or you come into
home and somebody's prepared a surprise
party for you for that big birthday oh
my god i'm so surprised it takes your
breath away so you get a shock or
hopefully a pleasant surprise that
just stops you breathing for the moment
so to take your breath away
to take something for granted well we
all take things from for granted from
time to time we may take our partners
for granted we may take the fact that we
have
food on the table for granted we may
take for granted the fact that we've got
money in our bank account so when you
take something for granted you assume
it's always going to be there it's been
there in the past it's there now so you
don't think things are going to change
in the world in which we live in we take
peace for granted but unfortunately it's
not always the case so to take something
for granted means to assume that because
it was there in the past and has always
been there that it will continue to be
so so if you have a job you have to work
hard and not take it for granted if you
have a partner that supports you then
you shouldn't take them for granted you
should tell them that you appreciate
what they do for you because if you do
take people for granted someday you
might turn around and they may not be
there when you want them so don't always
take things for granted work hard
appreciate what you have and have a
peaceful life to take something or
someone for granted
take it as given well when we use this
expression take it as given means you
don't have to ask just assume that yeah
i'll be there to support you will you
help me when i'm making this
presentation
will you be there if anybody asks any
difficult questions in case i get into
trouble look just take that as given
i'll be there to help you you just focus
on preparing the presentation i'll be
there if somebody asks a particular
question that i feel you feel you're not
comfortable about just give me a nod
with your head and i'll come in and i'll
support you okay
i think we need some money for this
campaign we'll need to do a bit of
promotion we do it need to do a little
bit of extra marketing yeah ticket is
given that whatever we need if the job
is right if we think it's appropriate
we'll have money there to support you so
just take it as given
taxes increase almost every year in
budgets in every country we can take
that as a given so it's a fact of life
so ticket is given something that's
bound to happen take it as given
to take a hammering or to take a beating
well when something or somebody takes a
hammering or a beating it's not really
good news yeah
my football team took a hammering there
a few weeks ago they were doing really
well in a few games and then they came
up against the team a little bit better
at the end of the day they got beaten
6-0 6-0 they took a real hammering or a
real beating okay i hope you don't ever
take a hammering or a beating you know
if you got into trouble with somebody or
into a fight in the school yard one of
the kids oh he took a real hammering or
a real beating from those bullies
somebody should sort them out so to take
a hammering or to take a beating means
to have a really difficult difficult
time about it okay you can also talk
about shares in the market yes some but
some
bad news comes out about a company
because of the price of oil has gone up
or they're having some trading
difficulties so the share might go from
100 to 90 to 80 to 70 and eventually to
40 dollars a share somebody could say
wow that share has taken a real
hammering or has taken a real beating
because of that bad economic news so we
can use to take a hammering or to take a
beating to do and deal with lots of
different things in our lives
to take something on the chin well this
is your chin okay so when you take
something on the chin you just got to
deal with it yeah so you know if
somebody punched you on the chin it's
pretty so and pretty hard and you just
have to accept it so when we use the
expression to take it on the chin you've
got to
face up to it you've got to deal with it
and just then get on with life okay so
let's say for example that you lost your
job
you were doing really well or you
thought you were doing really well then
the company got into difficulty and a
lot of people got let go some people are
having problems dealing with that
perhaps they might not get another job
for a while but you've just taken it on
the chin so you're talking to your
friends and said look i'll get another
job it might take me a couple of weeks
indeed it could take me a couple of
months i'm not really so bothered i'll
wait and i get a job that i really want
so when you have a
something that's uh negative or
something that happens that you weren't
expecting yeah just take it on the chin
as we say dust yourself off get up and
get on with life take it on the chin or
sometimes they say take it like a man
okay so to take it on the chin
don't avoid the issue
to take your or somebody else's mind off
something well usually when we use this
expression it's to help somebody to stop
thinking about something bad so you know
you might take somebody out for an email
to take their mind off the fact that a
parent or a friend is in hospital not
feeling so well ah let's go out for the
evening it'll take your mind off things
or perhaps you haven't had any luck with
getting a job and so your friend
suggests you go to the park you go for a
walk up the hills it's a really nice day
and you'll enjoy it come on it's it's
for saturday what else is going to
happen it'll take your mind off things
so you offer to get out have a walk just
do something nice and easy and relaxing
to help the person take their mind off
whatever their troubles are yeah so
anytime we have a problem what we need
is something that will distract us from
that particular problem to help us take
our mind off those problems to help our
friends take their minds off the
problems that they have okay so
break the routine get the person to do
something different go to the movies go
for a meal go for a walk in the park go
to another city for a weekend just drop
around for a cup of coffee all of these
things will help you or your friend to
take your mind off whatever the
difficulties are and let's face it there
are plenty of difficulties in our lives
so from time to time we need to do
something different
just to take our minds off those
particularly bad things okay next
to take it out on someone
when we take it out on somebody it means
we usually are in a bad mood for
something there's some reason something
happened at at work something happened
at home we had a rare with the wife or
they we had a row with the boyfriend or
whatever it might be so we take it out
on someone usually the closest person to
us the kids or your parents or somebody
rings you what do you want
what's wrong with you oh don't worry
about me i just had a a bad day well
there's no need to take it out on me so
the person will let you know they're not
willing or prepared to have your bad
mood put onto them okay so to take it
out and somebody means to reflect your
bad mood or the problems that you have
onto the relationship with them okay
when we take something out on somebody
it means that we are reflecting our bad
mood reflecting the bad day whatever
happened the argument at work we take it
out on those people that are closest to
us like kicking the dog or kicking the
cat
something you shouldn't do okay so don't
take it out on somebody
don't take it out on me go out for a
walk go to the gym
take it out on the punch bag but don't
take it out on those people closest to
you whatever it might be whatever's
upset you don't take it out on somebody
close to you
go off somewhere let off the steam in
the park go for a run go for a cycle
whatever it is that you can do just to
let it all out and when you do come home
yeah you can talk about it nice and in a
friendly manner so to take it out on
someone
next to take credit for something
normally when we take credit for
something it's usually to take credit
for something we actually didn't do that
somebody else did okay so you're the
person working for you under reporting
to you does a lot of work on some
presentation does a lot of work on the
document so they present it to you and
say okay look i'll i'll take it to the
boss and you take it to the boss and say
oh well done that's really really great
this is really going to go
down well with the the board look i
really appreciate it well done that
there'll be a nice bonus for you at the
the end of the term and you go off
happy as larry okay but what you didn't
do is you didn't tell the boss and in
fact the work was all done by the person
reporting to you so you've taken the
credit for that good report you've taken
the credit from the boss when in fact
you said well actually it wasn't my work
mary and all the guys there they did
most of the work i'm just presenting the
facts to you so to take credit for
something usually means to allow people
in this case the boss to allow him to
believe
that you're worthy of that praise that
you've done something
when in fact somebody else did it okay
to take someone to the cleaners well
when somebody gets taken to the cleaners
it means they're usually left without
anything so if you've ever visited a
casino or you've watched a movie about
somebody who goes to the casino or
somebody who goes to the racetrack or
goes to the dog track and they think
they've got a sure winner and they bet
on the
number and the roulette table they bet
on their lucky number for the horse or
the dog and guess what yeah they lose
and then they bet again and they lose
again so at the end of the day they've
no money left they've been taken to the
cleaners everything is gone they've been
wiped out or wiped clean so if you get
taken to the cleaners then generally you
you lose everything
you could also use the expression to be
taken to the cleaners if you get tricked
into signing some document or tricked
into making some payment to somebody or
indeed foolishly give you a bank account
number to somebody who then takes the
money out of your account yeah that's
when you'll get taken to the cleaners
and you've been completely wiped of all
the the funds everything has been gone
out of your bank account something has
gone amiss and when you look at your
statement you can't understand what has
happened so yeah you've been taken to
the cleaners you've been the subject of
some phishing or some scam whatever it
might have been so you've got to be
really really careful as to how you
divulge any personal information to to
anybody so that you can avoid being
taken to the cleaners
you could use it in a general way if
you're playing game
with your family for example the game of
monopoly where there's lots of money
involved thankfully only paper fake
money but uh if one of the the kids
happens to be really good at monopoly
and after an hour they've got all the
properties on their side and you've got
nothing left but debt you can say well
that's the game over i'll have to fold
i've been taken to the cleaners i've
nothing left okay so you can use it in
reality but you can also use it when
you're talking about certain games
and then finally
take it or leave it well this is when
you have an option take it or leave it
means look there's no other choice you
can have it or you can forget about it
take it or leave it that's my final
offer so you might be going to change
your car and uh you have your eye on
this wonderful car in the car
showrooms and you think you're going to
be able to negotiate or try and bargain
you the price down so you get talking to
the guy selling the car and he gives you
all the story about this particular car
how great it is you know the performance
so you get into the situation where
you're negotiating and you say okay look
i can't afford to pay the asking price
this is how much i can afford i can
afford 23 24 000 euro max
and the guy says well look now i
couldn't sell it for that i'd be losing
money and you say well you know what's
what's your best price so he gives you
the price of
27 000 euro and you go hmm i don't know
about that i have to think of it and uh
you give me a few days and the salesman
says well look i tell you what i'll
leave it with you for 24 hours but
that's my
best price so take it or leave it so
i'll give you 24 hours but i need a yes
or no so you have to decide then whether
you'll accept it or perhaps he's only
bluffing and he might be able to bargain
further but when somebody tells you take
it or leave it means that's it there's
no further bargaining available take it
or leave it
my mother used to say to me i'd come
home after school or to come home
after being training and i'd be looking
for something to eat and she said oh
there's some food in the fridge and so
when you open the fridge is that all
well you know what do you want take it
or leave it if you're hungry you'll eat
it if you don't want it but somebody
else will have it so take it or leave it
okay so these are all advanced phrases
using take all advanced english phrases
using take let me give them to you one
more time
to take your breath away so something
will take your breath away some view
to take something or someone for granted
you think it's there it'll always be
there it might not take something for
granted
take it as given yeah
accept yeah it will be there i'll be
there something will be there to support
you take it as given
to take a hammering or a beating you
know when you get badly beaten
to take it on the chin be face up to it
take it on the chin
take your or somebody else's mind off
something
to take it out on someone to let them
suffer for your bad mood take it out on
someone
to take credit for something somebody
did a good job but you take the credit
for it
take someone to the cleaners
lose all the money and then finally take
it or leave it you have a choice
you take it or you don't take it or
leave it okay so all advanced phrases
with take and as i always say if you've
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something you want some more
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