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take the flak en · VERB
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(informal, intransitive) To be strongly criticised.
The manager's going to take the flak for taking our star player off the pitch.
“When we released GPT-3,” Sam Altman told me over lunch at a restaurant off the Embarcadero in San Francisco, “we took a lot of flak from the community for putting it behind the API”[…]
2022 April 15, Steven Johnson, Nikita Iziev, “A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
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