take root

Idioms and Phrases

Become established or fixed, as in We're not sure how the movement took root, but it did so very rapidly . This idiom transfers the establishment of a plant, whose roots settle into the earth, to other matters. [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

Spanish explorers may have brought the first peach pits to North America, but Indigenous communities helped the ubiquitous summer fruit really take root, according to a study led by a researcher at Penn State.

From Science Daily

They then seeded this 'soil' mixture and waited for the plants to take root.

From Science Daily

But those gains were erased by the rising crack epidemic that took root, and once again, MacArthur Park was lost to the people who needed it most.

From Los Angeles Times

He’s the conflicted architect of a militarized theocracy that took root in America after a second civil war where the Constitution did not prevail.

From Los Angeles Times

Test results from this year revealed it had taken root in four more counties.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• burgeon
• germinate
• grow