adapt (something) from (something)
adapt (something) from (something)
To create one thing from another. The film was adapted from a famous novel.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
adapt something from something
to derive something from something else; to create by modifying something else. I adapted my new musical from a novel.
See also: adapt
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- on one's
- on someone's
- pillow-biter
- (Have you) been OK?
- (something) blows
- #dead
- out of one's
- (I've) got to go
- save someone's skin
- (as) gay as a three-dollar bill