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Take one’s orders vs Take orders

admin Confusing Phrases

take one’s orders—receive directions or commands:

  • The civil patrol serves under the command of the chief commissioner, who takes his orders from the army command.

take orders—

1. = take one’s orders:

  • Jules had to take orders from him pretending to go along with him in his ridiculous schemes.

2. (also: take holy orders) become a priest in the Anglican Church:

  1. I had scarcely taken orders a year before I began to think seriously of matrimony.