- take it in your stride
- Take it in your strideIf you take something in your stride, you deal with it even though it is difficult or unpleasant without letting it bother or upset you.
The small dictionary of idiomes. 2014.
take it in your stride
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take something in your stride — phrase to not be upset or troubled by something I told her what had happened and she took it all in her stride. Thesaurus: to be, or to become calm and stop worryingsynonym Main entry: stride * * * take sth in your ˈstride idiom … Useful english dictionary
take (something) in (your) stride — to calmly deal with something unpleasant and not let it have a bad effect on you. There s plenty of work to do, but she seems to take it all in her stride. Cooper has learned to take such criticism in stride … New idioms dictionary
take something in your stride — to not be upset or troubled by something I told her what had happened and she took it all in her stride … English dictionary
take in your stride — When, in a difficult situation, you take things in your stride, you deal with the situation calmly and without any special effort. When the take over was announced, Tom stayed calm and took it in his stride … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
take something in stride — take something in (one s) stride deal with something difficult or unpleasant in a calm and accepting way we took each new disease in stride * * * take (something) in stride (US) (or Brit take (something) in your stride) : to deal with (something… … Useful english dictionary
take in stride — take (something) in stride (US) (or Brit take (something) in your stride) : to deal with (something difficult or upsetting) in a calm way I thought she d be upset, but she has taken the news in stride. • • • Main Entry: ↑stride … Useful english dictionary
stride — stride1 [straıd] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(step)¦ 2¦(improvement)¦ 3 take something in your stride 4 get into your stride 5¦(way of walking)¦ 6 break (your) stride 7 put somebody off their stride 8 (match somebody) stride for stride ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1.) ¦(STEP)¦ … Dictionary of contemporary English
stride — 1 verb past tense strode, past participle stridden (intransitive always + adv/prep) to walk quickly with long steps (+ across/into/down): Clarice jumped off the porch and strode across the lawn. 2 noun 1 walking (C) a long step: Paco reached the… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
stride */ — I UK [straɪd] / US noun Word forms stride : singular stride plural strides [countable] a long confident step In three strides he had crossed the room. a) [singular] a way of walking with long steps an easy stride b) [countable] the distance that… … English dictionary
stride — [straɪd] (past tense strode [strəʊd] ; past participle stridden [ˈstrɪd(ə)n] ) verb [I] I to walk with energy and confidence She strode onto the platform.[/ex] II noun [C] stride [straɪd] a long confident step • get into your stride to begin to… … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
