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Sit down, relax, as in I wish you'd take some time and take the load off . A shortening of take the load off one's feet , this colloquial phrase dates from about 1940. It is sometimes put as take a load off .Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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