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take its course en · VERB
Meanings
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To progress in a natural manner without interference.
Fortunately, Frank had devised a cool way of getting down the seemingly endless staircase. He’d found an old laundry basket, and with felt-tip pens had painted it with the colours of Queenie – red, white and blue. All he had to do was sit at the top of the staircase, and then let gravity take its course.
2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:King Charles has insisted “the law must take its course” after detectives took the unprecedented step of arresting his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
2026 February 19, Jamie Grierson, Rajeev Syal, Vikram Dodd, “King says ‘law must take its course’ after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
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run its course