Her sister has taken up with a former high school sweetheart.
Immigrants who have left families behind in their home countries sometimes take up with new partners here.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
take issue with someone — take issue with someone/something/ phrase to disagree with someone, or to disagree about something I must take issue with you on the question of teachers’ pay. Thesaurus: to disagree with someone or somethingsynonym Main entry … Useful english dictionary
take issue with someone — take issue with (someone) to disagree with someone or something. I take issue with people who say it is unpatriotic to criticize our government. Thorogood took issue with the story that he had a drinking problem, calling it a nasty rumor … New idioms dictionary
take liberties with someone — take liberties (with (someone)) to be friendly with another person for your own benefit. The head of our department believed that everyone there would take liberties with her if she let them … New idioms dictionary
take issue with someone/something — Syn: disagree with, challenge, dispute, (call into) question … Synonyms and antonyms dictionary
take issue with something — take issue with someone/something/ phrase to disagree with someone, or to disagree about something I must take issue with you on the question of teachers’ pay. Thesaurus: to disagree with someone or somethingsynonym Main entry … Useful english dictionary
take issue with — (someone) to disagree with someone or something. I take issue with people who say it is unpatriotic to criticize our government. Thorogood took issue with the story that he had a drinking problem, calling it a nasty rumor … New idioms dictionary
take up with — (someone) to begin a romantic relationship with someone. Her sister has taken up with a former high school sweetheart. Immigrants who have left families behind in their home countries sometimes take up with new partners here … New idioms dictionary
take liberties with — take liberties (with (someone)) to be friendly with another person for your own benefit. The head of our department believed that everyone there would take liberties with her if she let them … New idioms dictionary
take care of someone — take care of (someone/something) 1. to be responsible for someone or something. Our parents spent a lot of time taking care of us when we were young. My mother in law fell and could not take care of herself anymore. My wife takes care of paying… … New idioms dictionary
take up with — phrasal verb Word forms take up with : present tense I/you/we/they take up with he/she/it takes up with present participle taking up with past tense took up with past participle taken up with 1) take up with someone [transitive] informal to… … English dictionary
