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take five
Idioms and Phrases
Relax, take some time off from what one is doing, as in We've been at it long enough; let's take five . This term is short for “take five minutes off.†[ Slang ; first half of 1900s] For a synonym, see take a break .Example Sentences
It would take five years to secure financing, and two more years to finally shoot the picture in 2023.
It took five months for that invoice to arrive.
When the SARS-CoV-2 virus first began spreading across the globe five years ago, some predicted that it could take five years for things to recover.
One of White’s players, Aldo Rojo, was born in Mexico and takes five Advanced Placement classes with Spanish as his primary language.
But, given their current negative points difference, a failure to take five points from their meeting with Italy, would stretch their odds even longer.
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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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