Meaning of take for granite | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Eggcorn of take for granted.
   Canada, US
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, for, granite.

Examples

“We take⟳ for granite as we are growing up That we will live⟳ to a ripe old age The things we take⟳ for granite Would more than fill⟳ a newspaper page”

“On the south side of, and at a little distance from, the Baths of Landeck, there occurs a variety of gneiss, which, at first sight, may be taken for granite, particularly if a small specimen only be examined.”

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