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

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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.
 

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" 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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