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take it out on

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  1. take it out onverb

    To unleash one's anger on [a person or thing other than the one that caused it]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of take it out on in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of take it out on in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of take it out on in a Sentence

  1. Tim Macdonald:

    I think we established that when there are people committing acts of violence, what the police should do is take action against those people. What you can't do is take it out on the peaceful protesters, the acts of violence against peaceful protesters by the police were so extensive, I think that's what persuaded the jury. He added that the city never presented evidence or argued that the plaintiffs had acted violently.

  2. George Bernard Shaw:

    Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

  3. Robert Pressman:

    It's just so frustrating for us to know there's a solution out there -- a way to fix our daughter -- and some bureaucratic machine is preventing this from happening, you get so angry, but you don't know who to take it out on, because there's no particular person that's doing it. It's this big bureaucracy that's preventing this from happening.


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