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take for granite en · VERB
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(Canada, US) Eggcorn of take for granted.
We take for granite as we are growing up
That we will live to a ripe old age
The things we take for granite
Would more than fill a newspaper page
2011, Kenneth Harrison, “One Thing For Sure”, in Poems for the Soul, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 13:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, for, granite.
On the south side of, and at a little distance from, the Baths of Landeck, there occurs a variety of gneiss, which, at first sight, may be taken for granite, particularly if a small specimen only be examined.
1810, Leopold von Buch, translated by Charles Anderson, A Mineralogical Description of the Environs of Landeck, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., →OCLC, pages 21–22:
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