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Discover LudwigThe phrase "take a match" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to physically pick up or obtain a small wooden stick with a flammable head used for starting a fire. Example: As the campfire died down, John reached into his pocket and took a match to relight it.
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It was the 19th time Bangladesh had failed to take a match beyond the third of five scheduled days.
It has been in his hand for five minutes, but he has forgotten to take a match to it.
"I just can't see throwing my hands up," he said, "or asking someone to take a match to the container".
What Elio and Oliver do to a peach, for instance, might have made T. S. Eliot take a match to "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
The Australian batting line-up needs Kid Rock, for he is precisely the type of batsman who can take a match away from England's evil reverse-swinging and showy seamers".
Are you in?" – in-no-way-desperate La Liga suits launch their own petition in the USA! USA!! USA!!! to take a match to Miami, while also creatively rebranding themselves as grassroots American supporters.
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Stosur broke Williams to take a match-changing 7-6 lead thanks to two remarkably struck passing shots.
Take a couple matches and the strike the strip and put it in the pile.
Finally her mother-in-law took a match and set her on fire.
"Sometimes it just takes a match for me to get through the rustiness".
Who takes a match directly to the foam inside a sofa cushion?
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