is the phrase "taking something for granted" or "taking something for granite"?

Question

lol ill be sure to tell my roomie shes an idiot!

Answer 1

"Taking something for granted."

It means you have something and you don't necessarily realize its value or importance (often until it is too late).

Ex. You take for granted living at home until you move out and realize that life is tough and things were a lot easier when you lived at home! Like paying bills!! lol...

Answer 2

granted as in a grant (something given)
granite is of course a very hard sort of stone so the second expression could make sense if one were to look at a countertop and take it for granite when in fact it is just plastic
but the first one is a old and well known phrase

Answer 3

Taking something for granted, is the expression. Granite is the name of a rock. Granted implies that it is something which is expected.

Answer 4

The common phrase is "taking something for granted," but there is a play on words version that is often used for teaching about minerals that involves "taking something for granite."

Answer 5

Heyyyo... hey-yo! lol I love your question. It reminds me of lyrics to an old rock song by Bob Seger. Everybody else has already given you the right answer: "Taken for granted."

When you give something to somebody... it is "granted." So if you "take it for granted" it means you think it was given to you... it was meant for you.

However... the SONG LYRICS said: "Taken for granite, in the heat of the night." Uhmmm... I don't think it had anything to do with minerals... in the song he was saying he was... hard as a rock! lol

Betcha that explanation will stay in your mind!

Answer 6

GRANTED--"to take for granted" means to "assume to be true, real, or expected; value too lightly."

I don't think I'd want to be taken for "granite" because that is a hard, igneous (or made originally from volcanic lava) rock with a visibly crystal-like nature and that's used in buildings and monuments (especially tombstones, among others). You can mistake something as being made of granite, however.


(Note To inky-pink: The lyric goes "LIKE a rock", not "hard as a rock. It also doesn't refer to what you're thinking. It's about a man who spent years in prison, and once released, is saying how his emotions have become like a rock and he won't be hurt again so easily. I, too, am a BIG fan of Bob Seger.)


Like A Rock
Words and Music by Bob Seger

Stood there boldly
Sweatin' in the sun
Felt like a million
Felt like number one
The height of summer
I'd never felt that strong
Like a rock

I was eighteen
Didn't have a care
Working for peanuts
Not a dime to spare
But I was lean and
Solid everywhere
Like a rock

My hands were steady
My eyes were clear and bright
My walk had purpose
My steps were quick and light
And I held firmly
To what I felt was right
Like a rock

Like a rock, I was strong as I could be
Like a rock, nothin' ever got to me
Like a rock, I was something to see
Like a rock

And I stood arrow straight
Unencumbered by the weight
Of all these hustlers and their schemes
I stood proud, I stood tall
High above it all
I still believed in my dreams

Twenty years now
Where'd they go?
twenty years
I don't know
sit and I wonder sometimes
Where they've gone

And sometimes late at night
When I'm bathed in the firelight
The moon comes callin' a ghostly white
And I recall
recall

Like a rock. standin' arrow straight
Like a rock, chargin' from the gate
Like a rock, carryin' the weight
Like a rock

Lihe a rock, the sun upon my skin
Like a rock, hard against the wind
Like a rock, I see myself again
Like a rock

Answer 7

Taking something for granted.

Answer 8

taking something for granted

Answer 9

taking something for granted.

Answer 10

granted.