take for graniteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

take for granite (三人称単数 現在形 takes for granite, 現在分詞 taking for granite, 過去形 took for granite, 過去分詞 taken for granite)

1. (US, Canada) Eggcorn of take for granted.
   • 2011, Kenneth Harrison, “One Thing For Sure”, in Poems for the Soul, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 13:

     We take for granite as we are growing up
     That we will live to a ripe old age
     The things we take for granite
     Would more than fill a newspaper page

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take,‎ for,‎ granite.
   • 1810, Leopold von Buch, Charles Anderson, transl., A Mineralogical Description of the Environs of Landeck, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., OCLC 1064898038, pages 21–22:

     On the south side of, and at a little distance from, the Baths of Landeck, there occurs a variety of gneiss, which, at first sight, may be taken for granite, particularly if a small specimen only be examined.