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taken one's cue from

taken one's cue from is the past participle of take one's cue from.

Meaning of take one's cue from

Verb

take one's cue from (third-person singular simple present takes one's cue from, present participle taking one's cue from, simple past took one's cue from, past participle taken one's cue from)

  1. To copy; to do something in the same way as.
    • She yanked her head over her shoulder and, taking her cue from the rat in the laboratory, she sank her teeth into Burt’s arm as hard as she could.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

Questions about taken one's cue from

What is taken one's cue from the past participle of?
Taken one's cue from is the past participle of take one's cue from.

Words near taken one's cue from in the dictionary

  1. taken one up
  2. taken one's ball and gone home
  3. taken one's business elsewhere
  4. taken one's chance
  5. taken one's courage in both hands
  6. taken one's cue from
  7. taken one's custom elsewhere
  8. taken one's ease
  9. taken one's eye off the ball
  10. taken one's eyes off
  11. taken one's eyes off the ball

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