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#1 (**permalink**) 31-Mar-2008, 07:27

" To Take Wing" - Is it an idiom or a phrase. In what situations will it be appropriate to use it?

Anglika · #2 (**permalink**) 31-Mar-2008, 12:50

It is both a phrase and an idiom.

It comes from birds taking wing = flying away. So metaphorically something that takes wing is taking off and flying away.

banderas · #3 (**permalink**) 31-Mar-2008, 13:07

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Originally Posted by Bhuvana Murali

" To Take Wing" - Is it an idiom or a phrase. In what situations will it be appropriate to use it?

to take wing=to suddenly, powerfully develop:
"Turkeky to take wing"


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