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Originally Posted by queenbu  Please note that we are interested in 'take a bull by its/the horns' as an idiom not in the literal sense. So we can't generalize a google search. |
I don't understand. I would hazard a guess that not one of those Google hits is literal. The collocation, in British English, is 'take the bull by
the horns'; usage of that phrase on UK web pages is both relevant and probative.
Perhaps your point is that this discussion of the accuracy of the Idioms section belongs in another thread?
PS - I've just seen Casi's link to Answers.com, attesting "bull by its horns" in the UK. Maybe I should revisit my espousal of
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