- take to doing something
- take to (doing something)
to start doing something regularly.
She's taken to walking along the beach after work.
After he retired, he took to working in the local schools as a volunteer.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
take to doing something
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take some doing — used for saying that something will be very difficult to do It will take some doing to finish this before five o clock … English dictionary
don't go doing something — don’t go doing something spoken phrase used for telling someone not to do something Take your time and don’t go rushing into anything. Thesaurus: ways of encouraging or telling someone to do somethingsynonym Main entry: go * * * don t go doing… … Useful english dictionary
