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- verb idiomatic to
assume that everyoneagrees that something iscorrect
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ry commented on the word take something as read
by far the most common usage of this phrase is "to take it as read that...(something is the case)"
also commonly mis- or alternately-phrased as take it as written or sometimes take it as writ
May 23, 2013