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idiomroots► the grass rootsput down roots1 to begin living in a place and decide that you are going to live there for a long time:A housing partnership is helping families put down roots in Middlesbrough, by offering low-cost housing.By the time the Home Office can review their cases, many asylum seekers have married, put down roots, sent their children to school here.2 if an organization, system, or plan puts down roots, it is accepted and becomes successful:The system of allowing librarians to control the supply of books in public libraries seems to have put down deep roots, even though it is absurd.In 1935, there were attempts to persuade Britain of the need to rearm, but the campaign put down few roots.
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root1. n. a cigarette or a cigar. That root you’re smoking sure stinks. 2. in. to eat food like a pig. Bart is downstairs rooting now. It won’t take that slob long to eat. - at the grass roots
- be rooted in (something)
- determine the root of the problem
- figure out the root of the problem
- find the root of the problem
- get at the root of the problem
- get to the root of (something)
- get to the root of something
- get to the root of the problem
- glued/rooted to the spot
- grass roots
- grassroots
- Idleness is the root of all evil
- money is the root of all evil
- put down roots
- put roots down
- root
- root (someone or something) out of (something or some place)
- root (something) in (something)
- root and branch
- root around
- root around for (something)
- root around in (something)
- root around in (something) for (something)
- root cause
- root for
- root for (someone or something)
- root in
- root of the matter
- root of the matter, the
- root of the problem
- root out
- root out of
- root through (something) (for something)
- root up
- rooted in
- rooted to
- rooted to (something or some place)
- rooted to the spot
- rooting interest
- rooting-tooting
- rootin'-tootin'
- strike at the root of
- strike at the root of (something)
- take root
- take root, to
- the crux of the matter
- the grass roots
- the root cause
- the root of the issue
- the root of the matter
- the root of the problem
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