take up the mantle
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Verb edit
take up the mantle (third-person singular simple present takes up the mantle, present participle taking up the mantle, simple past took up the mantle, past participle taken up the mantle)
- Synonym of assume the mantle.
- 1994, Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, →ISBN, page 27:
- Educators took up this mantle enthusiastically.