take for granite

take for granite

English

Verb

take for granite (third-person singular simple present takes for granite, present participle taking for granite, simple past took for granite, past participle taken for granite)

1. (US, Canada) Eggcorn of take for granted.
   • 2011, Kenneth Harrison, “One Thing For Sure”, in Poems for the Soul, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 13:

     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

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take,‎ for,‎ granite.
   • 1810, Leopold von Buch, Charles Anderson, transl., A Mineralogical Description of the Environs of Landeck, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., OCLC 1064898038, pages 21–22:

     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.

Usage notes

Sometimes used intentionally as a pun.