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took one's cue from

took one's cue from is the simple past 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 took one's cue from

What is took one's cue from the simple past of?
Took one's cue from is the simple past of take one's cue from.

Words near took one's cue from in the dictionary

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

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