Download File - JOHN J. HADDAD, Ph.D.

take care of number onetake a bath (on sth): “You might take a bath on this investment.”take care of number one and take care of numerouno tv. to take care of oneself. (See also numero uno.) Arthur, like everybody else, is most concerned with takingcare of number one.Take it down a thou(sand)! in. Cool down!; Calmdown!; Quiet down! You are wild! Take it down a thouand let’s try again to talk this out.take it to the street tv. to tell everyone about yourproblems. If there’s something bothering her, she’sgonna take it to the street, first thing.take names tv. to make a list of wrongdoers. (Often figuratively,as with a schoolteacher, whose major weaponis to take names and send them to the principal.) Theboss is madder than hell, and he’s taking names.take on fuel tv. to drink alcohol to excess. They stoppedat the tavern to take on fuel.210