take-for-granted
Chunk: take for granted
Meaning & Usage
To take for granted has two meanings. Usually, it means to fail to appreciate someone or something because you are so used to them being there. Secondly, it means to assume something is absolutely true without checking.
🧲 Common Collocates
- Lack of Appreciation: take your health for granted, take your parents for granted, feel taken for granted.
- Assumptions: take it for granted that (clause).
💬 Contextual Examples
- We often take our health for granted until we get seriously sick.
- After ten years of marriage, she started to feel like her husband was taking her for granted.
- I just took it for granted that the restaurant would be open on a Monday.
🎴 Interactive Web Practice
Practice 1: You shouldn't take clean drinking water ______ granted.
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for Practice 2: He ______ it for granted that he would get the promotion, but they gave it to someone else.
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took Practice 3: A good employee never wants to feel ______ for granted by their boss.
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taken 🔗 Knowledge Base Connections
- 🔑 Parent Keyword: take
- ⚖️ Related Node: appreciate