take a picture

Idioms  

1. Photograph, as in I'd love to take a picture of your garden. This idiom was first used in the 1600s for making a drawing or other portrayal. It was transferred to photography in the mid-1800s.

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Example Sentences

"Sometimes they'll take a picture of me blinking, blinking, and they'll catch me with the blink."

From Barron's

“Sometimes they’ll take a picture of me blinking, blinking, and they’ll catch me with the blink.”

From The Wall Street Journal

So in an act of confectionary rebellion only a 10-year-old girl could pull off, I scowled next to my peanut foe and asked my father to take a picture—a ritual that lasted five years every time we went to that pharmacy.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It’s something new, something intriguing. They want to take a picture.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in,” Model often said.

From The Wall Street Journal