take root

Idioms  

1. 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]

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take root

"That ultimately creates a kind of fertile ground where many good ideas can take root," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

It took a few years for the concept to take root.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

It took just that seed for its sister sport netball to take root - initially also going by the name of basketball.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

It would take years, economists and business leaders say, to reorient global patterns of trade that took decades to take root.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026

Removed and replaced every bit of dirt just so, in hopes that they might take root in this place.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

Related Words

• burgeon
• germinate
• grow