See take something as it comes in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for take something as it comes meaning in English (3.1kB)
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "takes something as it comes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "taking something as it comes",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "took something as it came",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "taken something as it came",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "take<,,took,taken> something as it comes<comes,comes,came>"
},
"expansion": "take something as it comes (third-person singular simple present takes something as it comes, present participle taking something as it comes, simple past took something as it came, past participle taken something as it came)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "take life as it comes",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1899 February 5, “Klondike Reminiscences”, in New York Times, page 15",
"text": "There are really no hardships if you take things as they come and make the best of them.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002 December 27, Sam Lister, “Lost love story of the valiant rifleman”, in Times Online, UK, retrieved 2008-07-25",
"text": "He also urges Louie: “Take things as they come and keep smiling. Keep your spirits up, my dear. Be of good cheer and all will be well.”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To accept and deal with something (an event, etc.) as it occurs, with a composed state of mind."
],
"id": "en-take_something_as_it_comes-en-verb-VcAtAQD1",
"links": [
[
"accept",
"accept"
],
[
"deal with",
"deal with"
],
[
"event",
"event"
],
[
"composed",
"composed"
],
[
"state of mind",
"state of mind"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To accept and deal with something (an event, etc.) as it occurs, with a composed state of mind."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "equanimity"
},
{
"word": "go with the flow"
},
{
"word": "let the chips fall where they may"
},
{
"word": "take something in stride"
},
{
"word": "cross that bridge when one comes to it"
},
{
"word": "ride with the punches"
},
{
"word": "roll with the punches"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "take things as they come",
"word": "ottaa asiat sellaisina kuin ne tulevat"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "take things as they come",
"word": "prendre les choses comme elles viennent"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "take things as they come",
"word": "etwas nehmen, wie es kommt"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-take things as they come.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/db/En-au-take_things_as_they_come.ogg/En-au-take_things_as_they_come.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/En-au-take_things_as_they_come.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "take things as they come (Australia)"
}
],
"word": "take something as it comes"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "takes something as it comes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "taking something as it comes",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "took something as it came",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "taken something as it came",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "take<,,took,taken> something as it comes<comes,comes,came>"
},
"expansion": "take something as it comes (third-person singular simple present takes something as it comes, present participle taking something as it comes, simple past took something as it came, past participle taken something as it came)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "equanimity"
},
{
"word": "go with the flow"
},
{
"word": "let the chips fall where they may"
},
{
"word": "take something in stride"
},
{
"word": "cross that bridge when one comes to it"
},
{
"word": "ride with the punches"
},
{
"word": "roll with the punches"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "take life as it comes",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1899 February 5, “Klondike Reminiscences”, in New York Times, page 15",
"text": "There are really no hardships if you take things as they come and make the best of them.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002 December 27, Sam Lister, “Lost love story of the valiant rifleman”, in Times Online, UK, retrieved 2008-07-25",
"text": "He also urges Louie: “Take things as they come and keep smiling. Keep your spirits up, my dear. Be of good cheer and all will be well.”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To accept and deal with something (an event, etc.) as it occurs, with a composed state of mind."
],
"links": [
[
"accept",
"accept"
],
[
"deal with",
"deal with"
],
[
"event",
"event"
],
[
"composed",
"composed"
],
[
"state of mind",
"state of mind"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To accept and deal with something (an event, etc.) as it occurs, with a composed state of mind."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-take things as they come.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/db/En-au-take_things_as_they_come.ogg/En-au-take_things_as_they_come.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/En-au-take_things_as_they_come.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "take things as they come (Australia)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "take things as they come",
"word": "ottaa asiat sellaisina kuin ne tulevat"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "take things as they come",
"word": "prendre les choses comme elles viennent"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "take things as they come",
"word": "etwas nehmen, wie es kommt"
}
],
"word": "take something as it comes"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.