take to doing something
1take turns doing something — take turns (doing something) to do something one person after another. The mothers in our group take turns driving the children to school. When they play on the swings, we try to make sure the kids take turns …
2take to doing something — take to (doing something) to start doing something regularly. She s taken to walking along the beach after work. After he retired, he took to working in the local schools as a volunteer …
3take trouble over something — take trouble over/with sth | take trouble doing/to do sth idiom to try hard to do sth well • They take a lot of trouble to find the right person for the right job. Main entry: ↑troubleidiom …
4take trouble with something — take trouble over/with sth | take trouble doing/to do sth idiom to try hard to do sth well • They take a lot of trouble to find the right person for the right job. Main entry: ↑troubleidiom …
5take (a) delight in (doing) something — phrase to enjoy something, or to enjoy doing something He seemed to take great delight in embarrassing me. Thesaurus: to enjoy something, or to enjoy yourselfsynonym Main entry: delight …
6take a crack at doing something — take a crack at (something/doing something) to try to do something. Ford said he had always wanted to take a crack at writing a novel. Usage notes: sometimes used in the forms take another crack at something or have another crack at something: He …
7take some doing — phrase used for saying that something will be very difficult to do It will take some doing to finish this before five o’clock. Thesaurus: difficult to do and involving a lot of effortsynonym Main entry: doing * * * take some ˈdoing | take a lot… …
8take the liberty of doing something — take the liberty of (doing something) formal to do something that will have an effect on someone else without asking their permission. I took the liberty of reserving us two seats at the conference. I hope that s all right by you. (usually in… …
9take trouble doing do something — take trouble over/with sth | take trouble doing/to do sth idiom to try hard to do sth well • They take a lot of trouble to find the right person for the right job. Main entry: ↑troubleidiom …
10take some doing — used for saying that something will be very difficult to do It will take some doing to finish this before five o clock …
