take someone's arm

verb

To take hold of someone by their arm; to link arms with someone.

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Meanings

verbtake 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)

present singular third person takes someone's arm · participle present taking someone's arm · past took someone's arm · participle past taken someone's arm

  1. idiomaticTo take hold of someone by their arm; to link arms with someone.

    He took her arm to guide her through the Saturday evening crowds.

    1957, Nevil Shute, chapter 2, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow
    1 more example

    “Will you take my arm, sir?” he said; “there is a heavy shower coming on: had you not better go in?”

    1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XI, in Jane Eyre. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 269
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