take it

1. Accept or believe something, as in I'll take it on the doctor's say-so . Also see the subsequent entries beginning with take it .

2. Understand, as in I take it they won't accept your proposal . [Early 1500s]

3. Endure abuse, criticism, harsh treatment, or unpleasantness, as in Tell me what you really think of me—I can take it . [Mid-1800s] This phrase is sometimes modified as take just so much , meaning “endure only up to a point.” For example, I can take just so much of this nonsense before I lose patience . Also see take it on the chin ; take lying down .

Example Sentences

The King's birthday will see him launching a distribution centre in south London, where charities, including the Felix Project and FareShare, can collect food and take it to help individuals and community groups.

From BBC

Our friend Jeff Sharlet reacted by saying that Biden’s speech was misinformation: “A moderate- or low-information voter who tuned in to that, not sure what to think, would have come away thinking that the Democrats had lost to a Mitt Romney or a John McCain. They would take it as permission to tune out again till ’28.”

From Slate

What it represents is a threat to the fact that, ultimately, power is held by “we, the people,” and that anyone whom we elect to represent us holds that power only temporarily, with our permission, until it is time for us to take it back.

From Slate

Other aspects include, once those leaders are given temporary powers to represent us—we hand over our sovereignty to them for a temporary period to represent us—they’re constrained by checks and balances, by the rule of law, and by the protection of individual rights in order to ensure that, at the end of the day, our granting to them of our sovereignty as “we, the people,” is temporary and we get to take it back at the end of their term in office.

From Slate

And I said, I can't take it any more.

From BBC