The phrase "an idea took root" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the process of an idea becoming established or gaining acceptance over time.
Example: "After several discussions, an idea took root among the team, leading to a new project proposal."
Alternatives: "an idea began to flourish" or "an idea found its footing."
Just for Laughs, a comedy festival supported by leading comedians from around the world, dates back 24 years, when a simple acorn of an idea took root - to put people who liked to laugh and people who made them laugh under one roof - and grew into today's mighty oak.
Two decades later, an idea took root when Johns Hopkins experts found mismatch repair defects in a single patient with colon cancer who responded to immunotherapy while other patients with colon cancer did not.
Hopefully not THIS, but an idea took root and developed into a harsh, futuristic world with a regretful government trying to put things right, and a whole load of cyborgs!
How might such an idea take root?
Sometimes an idea takes root in a more unexpected venue like the sidelines of the Durham Girls Soccer League, where parents gather to watch their kids play.
But an unshakeable idea took root that the No side, by stressing the negatives of independence rather than the positives of the union, had come close to losing.
What is "early music?" A. About 25 or 30 years ago in this country, earlier in Europe, a new idea took root -- which is that instead of playing the works of the masters in the traditional way, what you wanted to do is to try to go back directly to the time when the music was written and performed.
This market will likely follow the pattern of the flash sale market where a new idea took root, consumers adopted it, valuations exploded and then the market became mature and consolidated.
As he later wrote: "A conviction of the fundamental soundness of the idea took root in my mind". Such an insight, to be accepted, would require large amounts of supporting evidence.
The idea took root in a much larger way last November when Steven Slosberg, a columnist for The Day in New London, presented the idea as a challenge to readers.
The idea took root on a team managed by Red Schoendienst, who respected veterans like Torre and McCarver enough to let them make a lot of on-field decisions.
