take someone's arm

English

Verb

take someone's arm (third-person singular simple present takes someone's arm, present participle taking someone's arm, simple past took someone's arm, past participle taken someone's arm)

1. (idiomatic) To take hold of someone by their arm; to link arms with someone.
   • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XI, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 269:

     “Will you take my arm, sir?” he said; “there is a heavy shower coming on: had you not better go in?”

   • 1957, Nevil Shute, chapter 2, in On the Beach‎^[1], New York: William Morrow:

     He took her arm to guide her through the Saturday evening crowds.

See also

• arm in arm