Take hold
1.
Grasp, as in Take hold of this end of the rope. [ Late 1500s ]
2.
Become established, as in The new vines quickly took hold, or This idea will never take hold with the voters. [ c. 1300 ]
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noun, Informal. 1. a deception, fraud, or imposition.
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- Take issue with
Disagree with, as in I take issue with those figures; they don’t include last month’s sales. This idiom comes from legal terminology, where it was originally put as to join issue, meaning “take the opposite side of a case.” [ Late 1600s ]