"take it away" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-take it away.ogg [Australia] Forms: takes it away [present, singular, third-person], taking it away [participle, present], took it away [past], taken it away [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|take<,,took,taken> it away}} take it away (third-person singular simple present takes it away, present participle taking it away, simple past took it away, past participle taken it away)
  1. (idiomatic) To begin, especially used to launch a performance of some sort (usually imperative and/or exclamatory). Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: commence Translations (to begin): a húrok közé csap (Hungarian), mandar a ver (Portuguese), приступи́ть (pristupítʹ) [neuter] (Russian)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for take it away meaning in English (2.4kB)

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