take a flight—make a journey by air:
- She had to drive home alone, while he took a shuttle flight in the opposite direction.
take flight—(also: take to flight)
1. run away (from danger, etc.):
- Fear and panic gripped people and many took flight into fields and woods at the air-raid warning.
2. (of birds) rise into the air; start flying (also: take wing ):
- The larger groundfeeding birds seldom take flight except to escape danger.