take for granite

present singular third person takes for granite · participle present taking for granite · past took for granite · participle past taken for granite

1. CanadaUSEggcorn of take for granted.

   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

   2011, Kenneth Harrison, “One Thing For Sure”, in Poems for the Soul, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 13

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, for, granite.

   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.

   1810, Leopold von Buch, translated by Charles Anderson, A Mineralogical Description of the Environs of Landeck, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., →OCLC, pages 21–22