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take someone's arm

take someone's arm verb: to take hold of someone by their arm; to link arms with someone.

Verb

take someone's arm (third-person singular simple present takes someone's arm, present participle taking someone's arm, simple past took someone's arm, past participle taken someone's arm)

  1. (idiomatic) To take hold of someone by their arm; to link arms with someone.
    • “Will you take my arm, sir?” he said; “there is a heavy shower coming on: had you not better go in?”1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XI, in Jane Eyre. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 269
    • He took her arm to guide her through the Saturday evening crowds.1957, Nevil Shute, chapter 2, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow

Forms of take someone's arm

third-person singular presenttakes someone's arm
present participletaking someone's arm
pasttook someone's arm
past participletaken someone's arm

Questions about take someone's arm

What does take someone's arm mean?
Take someone's arm means to take hold of someone by their arm; to link arms with someone.
What part of speech is take someone's arm?
Take someone's arm is a verb.
What is the past tense of take someone's arm?
The past tense of take someone's arm is took someone's arm.

Words near take someone's arm in the dictionary

  1. take someone for all they've got
  2. take someone out back
  3. take someone to brown town
  4. take someone to the grave
  5. take someone up short
  6. take someone's arm
  7. take someone's breath away
  8. take someone's fancy
  9. take someone's head off
  10. take someone's life
  11. take someone's name in vain

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