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take by storm
Idioms and Phrases
Make a vivid impression on, quickly win popular acclaim or renown, as in The new rock group took the town by storm . This usage transfers the original military meaning of the phrase, 鈥渁ssault in a violent attack,鈥 to more peaceful endeavors. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
鈥淭ake by storm is definitely a good description,鈥 Robins said.
A generation after Marx's death, the sovereignty of Capital shrinks visibly, works' committees and shops' stewards interfere with the productive processes, Socialists and Labour men fill the Parliaments, working men and their representatives rise to or take by storm the highest position of political power in States and Empires.
Fortune鈥擳he aggregate ov possibilitys; a goddess whom cowards count by stealth, but whom brave men take by storm.
They turned only when Summerlad unwisely, losing patience, sought to take by storm the lips she had not yet made up her mind to surrender, and thus aroused resistance till then dormant.
On the 13th of January 946, Ab奴 Yaz墨d shut up Q膩鈥檌m鈥檚 forces in Susa which he began to besiege, and attempted to take by storm.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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