taken for granted
23
3.7
- idiom
- Informal
:
dado por sentado
- For the most part, the existence of the soul is just taken for granted in the dialogue.
- often taken for granted
- now taken for granted
- simply taken for granted
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them.
- Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them.
- you know that you're getting the opportunity to do what you love. And that's just something that can't be taken for granted because
- It is acquired in childhood, forms an intrinsic part of our existence as civilized beings, and is taken for granted by most of us.
- That's a an inventor's greatest dream is that their inventions are so successful that they are one day taken for granted.
- And water is so taken for granted by the fish that they don't, they don't have a perception of water, not water.
- But if you are already on their taken for granted list, they don't.
- I mean, so a lot was taken for granted that was shared.
- I like that because it it demonstrates that that this is not taken for granted.
- And it is really nothing to be, not something to be taken for granted and not something to be whose importance can be slighted.
- And this normalization integral is usually taken for granted because we almost always work with sets of functions which are normalized.
Examples
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Within his circle, agreement on ends can simply be taken for granted.
Academic text (1991) -
At leading law schools, outcomes are often taken for granted, even in times of economic downturn.
Academic text (2017) -
Water is not to be taken for granted, but water is the House of God.
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His own past tells him that nothing can be taken for granted.
Fiction book (1995) -
But in Celtic Ireland and Scotland in the Dark Ages, such rights were taken for granted.
Academic text (2008) -
In all such debates, the principle of civilian control itself is taken for granted.
Academic text (1992) -
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them.
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Institutions that were taken for granted in pre-war years are on the defensive.
Academic text (1995) -
In the twenty-first century, the transformative nature of electronic filing is often taken for granted.
Academic text (2017) -
Many people take their health for granted without realizing its importance.
Synonyms
25
4.8
Clear and obvious without needing proof
10
3.6
Accepted as true and not doubted
5
8.3
Clearly true and accepted without proof
Antonyms
How Assumed
- Informal
23
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is largely inferable from its parts: 'granted' can be understood as 'given' and 'taken for granted' amounts to 'taken as given', so a learner who knows the constituent words can often arrive at 'considered true without questioning.' However, the idiomatic nuance (especially the sense of not appreciating something) and the fixed prepositional pattern are not fully predictable without exposure, making it only partially transparent.
Etymology
Taken for granted may come from the idea of accepting a 'grant', a gift or permission, without thinking. If you simply take a grant without question or thanks, you see it as 'given' and certain, so that's why the phrase means to assume something is true or to not appreciate it.