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

A short walk along an irrigation canal leads to a weathered observation deck rising two stories above a patchwork of saturated flats where saltgrass, iodine bush and cattail take root.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 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

Support from the U.S. government and multilateral financial institutions such as the Inter-American Development Bank helped the industry take root.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025

Harry said his fence would take root in places, maybe, and get green leaves on it in the spring.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

Related Words

• burgeon
• germinate
• grow