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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.

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