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take someone's arm en · VERB
Meanings
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(idiomatic) To take hold of someone by their arm; to link arms with someone.
He took her arm to guide her through the Saturday evening crowds.
1957, Nevil Shute, chapter 2, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow:“Will you take my arm, sir?” he said; “there is a heavy shower coming on: had you not better go in?”
1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XI, in Jane Eyre. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 269:
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arm in arm