take someone's arm
English
Verb
take someone's arm (third-person singular simple present takes someone's arm, present participle taking someone's arm, simple past took someone's arm, past participle taken someone's arm)
- (idiomatic) To take hold of someone by their arm; to link arms with someone.
- 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XI, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 269:
- “Will you take my arm, sir?” he said; “there is a heavy shower coming on: had you not better go in?”
- 1957, Nevil Shute, chapter 2, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow:
- He took her arm to guide her through the Saturday evening crowds.
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