to take any more
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3.7
- phrasal verb
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soportar
- Listen, I'm not taking any more chances.
- take any more pain
- take any more heat
- take any more hits
It's like when you can't take any more pressure, you have to relieve something.
- It's like when you can't take any more pressure, you have to relieve something.
- As our own mayor is saying, we can't take any more.
- It's just enough, enough, enough, like, And then you just feel it like, I can't take any more.
- But you have to get to that point where you cannot take any more because you have to ask yourself, do you love yourself more or do you love the other person more?
Examples
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I can't take any more of this.
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I really can't take any more of this.
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Tell her we're too drunk to take any more calls.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'm not going to take any more of your shit.
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"I'm not going to take any more of her nonsense."
Fiction book (1994) -
I can't take any more of it.
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I said that I don't want to take any more medication.
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I can't afford to take any more losses!
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We can't take any more extras!
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I can't take any more of this stress at work; it's too overwhelming.
Synonyms
304
3.5
To deal with something difficult for a long time without giving up
122
4.2
To resist strong or harmful force without breaking
31
4.5
Withstand a drug or condition without bad effects
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to be able to endure further' is directly derivable from 'take' in the sense 'endure/put up with' combined with 'any more' meaning 'any further' or 'any longer'. This composition follows straightforward semantic addition and is frequent in everyday speech (and mirrors constructions in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will typically understand it.
Etymology
The phrase take any more uses a simple picture: imagine your arms are full and you cannot take extra weight, or a cup that cannot hold any more water. So, when you say take any more, you mean you cannot 'put up with' or 'endure' any additional trouble.