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take a picture
Idioms and Phrases
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.Example Sentences
“I thought to myself, ‘I’m going to take a picture because at least if my phone is retrieved, they’ll know what happened.’â€
I thought to myself, “I’m going to take a picture because at least if my phone is retrieved, they’ll know what happened.â€
"We found this statistic: half a million people used to walk across Westminster Bridge, take a picture of the Houses of Parliament and then walk back north. The Southbank in 1993-94 was deserted."
Diaz asked that somebody take a picture of his home before and after the cleanup to show that he was here.
Fast becoming a fan favourite, she then went to take a picture of the crowd with a polaroid camera before realising it had run out of film.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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