take care of
Idioms-
Attend to, assume responsibility for, as in Go ahead to the movies, I'll take care of parking the car , or They've hired someone to take care of the children for a week . [Late 1500s]
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Beat up or kill someone, as in If he didn't pay up they threatened to take care of him and his family . [ Slang ; c. 1930]
Example Sentences
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"A mother tiger still does all the hunting for cubs as large as she is. Young elephants, already among the biggest animals on the Serengeti at birth, continue to follow and rely on their moms for years. Humans are the same in that way; we take care of our babies until they're adults."
From Science Daily
We take care of all his bills; his house and car were sold over three years ago.
From MarketWatch
In partnership with Google’s Gemini AI, the phone will take care of opening the Uber app, inputting the address and finding a driver.
Handing the trap back to me, Papa said, “You know, this time of the year there’s not much to do around the farm, just planting; and I can take care of that. You go right ahead and have a go at those monkeys. Maybe you can catch them; you’ve caught everything else in these hills.”
From Literature
“There’s not much to do around the farm right now—just planting—and he said that he could take care of that.”
From Literature
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