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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
He scored 103 runs and took five wickets in the drawn 2023 Ashes and by the end of the series had lost his place to Mitchell Marsh.
It took five years before she was diagnosed with autism.
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.
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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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