take one on
Example Sentences
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I may take one on just to see what I can do with it.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2018
Investigators would later learn that Charlemagne did not take one on the flight.
From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2016
Private attorneys often have little to gain from a typical wage and hour claim and are unlikely to take one on.
From US News • May 6, 2016
"To take one on 18 and to get the momentum going back into the afternoon was definitely big."
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2010
As Browning gives it in “One Word More,” the successive incarnations take one on to higher heights—“other lives in other worlds.”
From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald