take it from me

Idioms  

1. Also, you can take it from me. Rest assured, believe me, as in You can take it from me, we've been working hard on it. This idiom was first recorded in 1622 in slightly different form, take it upon my word. The current form appeared in 1672.

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Example Sentences

“Oh, my heart will give out, someone, please take it from me before I faint!”

From Literature

“Take it from me. If there’s one thing I learned from this weekend, it’s you have to be fair to both sides.”

From Los Angeles Times

"I said that if you are going to take it from me, you are going to have to really take it from me, and that is exactly what he did," Hudson-Smith said.

From BBC

Don’t just take it from me: The Merchants Payments Coalition, a trade association of retailers, i.e., the people who have been complaining nonstop about Visa and Mastercard, has flat-out said they don’t expect Capital One’s proposed acquisition to solve any of their problems.

From Slate

Hey, don’t take it from me; take it from the man himself.

From Slate