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

"If after a few days the tree showed signs of life and began to take root, they believed that place was meant for them," Arkoful says.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

It took the arrival of Liberty and the series’ surge in popularity in the 2020s for the Apple relationship to take root.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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

The work there has included arranging bales of straw on the sand, which has enabled native shrubs to take root and begin to keep down the blowing dust.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025

It didn’t very take long for the bean to take root in the sand below Malevolent’s castle.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

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