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• take the trouble to (do something)
  стараться, делать усилие

  "Will you please take the trouble to inform Miss Nordie that she is not going to have any lessons today?"
• take the wind out of someone's sails
  расстроить чьи-либо планы, выбить почву из под ног, обескуражить

  Kathy's answer was so cool, so rich in bravado that it took the wind out of his sails.
• take time off
  сделать перерыв в работе

  Sue had been studying Chinese for a couple of years before she decided to take time off.
• take to (someone or something)
  привязаться к кому-либо \ чему-либо, полюбить

  Sally took to the new teacher at once.
• take to (something)
  начать что-либо, взяться за что-либо

  Hillary took to the work of a fashion designer and was a great success.
• take to the woods
  уклоняться от ответственности, спрятаться в кусты

  Jeremy Scott was determined to take to the woods rather than that pay alimony to his wife.
• take turns
  делать что-либо по очереди (с другими)

  The majority of people in our office prefer to take their holidays in summer, so we have to take turns.
• take umbrage at (something)
  обижаться, чувствовать себя обиженным

  George is too quick to take umbrage at any remark.
• take up (clothes)
  укоротить, сделать короче

  My skirt is too long; I need to have it taken up.
• take up (something)
  начать заниматься чем-либо (спортом или каким-либо делом)

  Ralf didn't take up golf until he was fifty.
• take up (somewhere)
  начать с того места, где закончили

  "Look here, class! We will take up the exercise where we left off yesterday."
• take up (space or room)
  занимать место, наполнять собой

  The copying of these letters took up all day.
• take up (time)
  отнимать время

  "You have taken up quite enough of my time, Bob."
• take up arms against (someone or something)
  взяться за оружие против кого-либо \ чего-либо, встать на защиту

  The people of the Soviet Union took up arms against the Nazis to defend their country.
• take up where one left off
  начать с того, чем закончили

  I stopped reading the book at chapter six and now I will take up where I left off.
• take up with (someone)
  начать общаться, водить компанию с кем-либо

  After the holiday I never took up with Adam again.
• taken aback
  (неприятно) удивиться

  Sue was downright rude to me and I was taken aback.
• taken for dead
  считаться умершими

  After the avalanche a few people were taken for dead though their bodies were not found.
• talk (someone) down in price
  уговорить кого-либо снизить цену

  I tried to talk the man down in price for the car, but he didn't comply.
• talk (someone) out of (doing something)
  убедить кого-либо не делать что-либо

  I tried to talk my husband out of buying a spots car, so far without any success.
• talk back to (someone)
  возражать, дерзить кому-либо

  Bob is a naughty boy; he always talks back to his parents.
• talk big
  хвастаться

  When Erick visited us, he talked big about a lot of money he was going to get soon.
• talk down to (someone)
  выставлять себя в лучшем свете (перед кем-либо)

  Jane is the smartest student in her class, but she never talks down to her friends or classmates.
• talk in circles
  говорить одно и тоже, "толочь воду в ступе"

  "Stop talking in circles; tell me straight what you want me to do."
• talk of (somewhere)
  предмет разговора (где-либо)

  The recent arrest of the prominent banker has become the talk of the town.
• talk oneself out
  выговориться

  I saw that Ron was very upset and I let him talk himself out.
• talk out (a problem)
  обсудить (проблему) до конца

  I have decided to talk things out with Charles.
• talk shop
  говорить на профессиональные темы

  As they walked up the street together they began to talk shop.
• talk up (someone or something)
  расхваливать кого-либо \ что-либо

  My Mom always warms to anyone who talks up her food.
• tamper with (something)
  неумело пытаться сделать что-либо

  Someone has tampered with the seal of this letter.
• taper off
  утихать, становиться меньше

  The storm didn't taper off for several days.
• tar and feather (someone)
  строго наказать кого-либо (вымазать дёгтем и обвалять в перьях)

  The owner of the cottage threatened that he would tar and feather anyone who broke into his house.
• tarred with the same brush
  люди одного склада, "одного поля ягода", "одним миром мазаны"

  These politicians are all tarred with the same brush; they promise much but do little.
• taste of (something)
  почувствовать вкус чего-либо

  Adam got a taste of playing cricket while he was on holiday in Manchester.
• taste of things to come
  образец грядущих событий

  The rent increase was a taste of things to come with the new owner of our apartment house.