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idiomtake/pick up the batonto start doing something that someone else has begun, after they stop doing it:The provincial students scaled down their protests, leaving the city campuses to take up the baton.ICL picked up the baton and brought parallel processing into the mainstream for computer users.hand/pass on the baton: It is the process of socialization of children that allows us to hand on the baton to the next generation.Note A baton is a short stick that is passed from one runner to the next in a relay race (=a race in which a team of runners run one at a time).
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