take it from me, (you can)

Accept it on my say-so. This very modern-sounding phrase actually was in use in the seventeenth century. Thomas Wentworth, the Earl of Stratford, used it in a letter (ca. 1641) to King Charles I: “He is young, but, take it from me, a very staid head.”

词组	take it from me, (you can)
释义	take it from me, (you can) take it from me, (you can) Accept it on my say-so. This very modern-sounding phrase actually was in use in the seventeenth century. Thomas Wentworth, the Earl of Stratford, used it in a letter (ca. 1641) to King Charles I: “He is young, but, take it from me, a very staid head.” See also: take The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: eggs is eggs last-ditch defense/effort from my cold, dead hands (one's) best foot forward best foot forward (as) sure as eggs (is eggs) beck and call game on drunk as a lord/skunk time on one's hands, (to have)
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