take it


Understand, as in I take it they won't accept your proposal. [Early 1500s]

Words Nearby take it

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How to use take it in a sentence

  • This time he handed over a second handkerchief with a ludicrous air of "take-it-and-ruin-it."

    Betty Gordon in Washington | Alice B. Emerson
  • Sometimes I would send them forth accompanied by a curt business note of the take-it-or-leave-it order.

    Paul Kelver | Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome