to take as it comes
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5.0
- phrasal verb
- Informal
- Yeah, you have to take life as it comes.
- take things as they come
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Watch on YouTubeI'm very hard on myself, you know, but I take every day as it comes.
- I'm very hard on myself, you know, but I take every day as it comes.
- This might, that sounds crazy, but I just take everything as it comes now, like all that just come my way.
- But reach out and take each new day as it comes and ask yourself, how can I best use this day?
- I wouldn't even like to calculate that that possibility because I take each case as it comes.
- Cheeto, on the other hand, seems like present in the moment, taking everything in stride as it comes to him.
Examples
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We'll just take each day as it comes.
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I take things as they come.
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But reach out and take each new day as it comes and ask yourself, how can I best use this day?
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Yeah, but no, you know, I just take life, take things as it comes and roll with it.
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I just take life as it comes.
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Life is a gift. Take each day as it comes and find the humor in every situation.
Blog text (29) -
I'm trying to take each day as it comes.
Blog text (34) -
Students in this category said that they simply took things as they came and embraced life and study at the university.
Academic text (2011) -
If we take life as it comes, then there would be fewer tensions and more happiness.
Blog text (29) -
After a challenging week at work, I decided to take life as it comes and not stress over every little problem.
Synonyms
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3.5
To tolerate an unpleasant situation without complaining
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4.1
Accept a situation without trying to change it
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5.0
Deal with a problem calmly without getting upset
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7.0
Allow a situation to continue without changing it
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8.2
Accept failure or criticism bravely without complaining
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7.8
To accept what happens and not try to change the result
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6.8
To accept an unpleasant situation without complaining
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8.8
Accept something unpleasant without complaining
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7.7
Accept the good and bad parts of a situation
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8.8
Accept something as it is even if you do not like it
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5.8
To deal with a problem only when it happens, not before
Deal with problems one at a time as they happen
Antonyms
How Calm
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'take' can mean 'accept' or 'deal with', and 'as it comes' means 'as it happens' or 'in the way things occur'. Combining these yields 'accept events as they happen', a straightforward semantic composition that follows common grammatical patterns and is likely inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
The idiom take as it comes shows a person who takes each thing when it comes and does not worry ahead of time. So, it means 'to accept events calmly as they happen'.