take for granite
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[edit]Verb
[edit]take for granite (third-person singular simple present takes for granite, present participle taking for granite, simple past took for granite, past participle taken for granite)
- (US, Canada) Eggcorn of take for granted.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, for, granite.
- 1810, Leopold von Buch, translated by Charles Anderson, A Mineralogical Description of the Environs of Landeck, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., →OCLC, pages 21–22:
- 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.
Usage notes
[edit]Sometimes used intentionally as a pun.