Meaning of take something to | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To apply (some instrument or implement) to (something else, to undertake a task or attack upon it, usually vigorously).
2. To experience application of (some instrument or implement).
3. To suffer (an injury or detriment) to person or property.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take.

Examples

“A lot of officers when they knock off a still will take an axe to the barrels.”

“The last guy to take a mower to this place must have been General MacArthur. It was as bad as any course in the U.S., yet it cost $100 to play on Saturdays. Doesn't matter. The golfers started lining up at two in the morning.”

“Sometimes someone would take a wrench to a fire hydrant, jam a crate up to its nozzle, turning the whole of it into a fountain for us kids to splosh around and play in.”

“It's quite something that I'm standing here with the door open, and that I'm thinking what fun it would be to take a trimmer to that grass and sort my plants from the weeds. That's progress—after all, I haven't got my hands dirty in[…]”

“He recounted the story of a heretic who took a sword to a statue of Mary, which began to bleed. […]”

“It turns one of the dickheads Nick took a baseball bat to is the nephew of a hick cop on the force out there.”

“[…] Theo took a scythe to the long grass in an attempt to transform the jungle into a more guest-friendly garden.”

“... and I wasn't smart enough to figure out how to open it and take the film out of it, so I just took his camera and laid it down on the ground and took a baseball bat to it. That camera didn't work after I took the bat to it.”

“"Fates, there were times when I honestly would've preferred to take a dagger to my ears than listen to him. But Kolis...he could be deceptively charming when he wanted to be. Enough that you started to relax around him, […]"”

“Our Constitution was a blank sheet of paper before someone took a pencil to it.”

“I used to do field lexicography, but then I took an arrow to the knee on North Sentinel Island.”

“Twitter took a major blow to its reputation”

“Let's take the presents to the community center.”

“And this from the bloke who took a phone to dinner in case we broke down on the way from the bedrooms to the dining room.”

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