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Meaning of take the flak | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To be strongly criticised.

informal, intransitive

Examples

“The manager's going to take⟳ the flak for taking our star player off the pitch.”
““When we released GPT-3,” Sam Altman told me over lunch at a restaurant off the Embarcadero in San Francisco, “we took a lot of flak from the community for putting it behind the API”[…]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

take the floor take the front seat take the game to take the gap take the gilt off the gingerbread take the heat

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