2007-10-13 13:27:54 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I assume you mean "Taking something for granted" Right?
If so heres what it means, If you go to the wall and flick on the light switch what do you expect to happen? The light to come on, right? What would you think if it didn't? What would you think if none of the lights in your house worked? Or maybe the water didn't run when you turned it on? Wouldn't that be strange? It would make you feel strange, right?? Thats 'cuz you're used to them being there, always doing what you expect them to do, right? Thats "taking something for granted". Expecting things ( and sometimes people) to always be there for you, to always do the familiar thing. Sometimes we expect people to always be there for US, to always do whatever they do for us without change. It easy to fall into expecting people to always act and/or react the same way. But that can make some people feel "Taken for granted"
2007-10-13 13:49:05 · answer #1 · answered by shelley h 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You were starting at a disadvantage by not knowing the missing word "for". Had you known this, you would have looked up "granted". Then you would have turned your attention to "for", and focused on "for Granted". Not "granted", but "for granted." And you would have understood that something is not necessarily "allowed" or "given" - one is only assuming that it is.
Such assumption may be justified or not, and an assumption justified under one set of circumstances may not be justified under another. For example, people in Britain took it for granted that they could leave their drapes open or closed at night. However, once the air raids began, those drapes had to be closed- or an official would be pounding on their door.
2007-10-13 21:29:28 · answer #2 · answered by picador 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that a person believes that something will always be there, and be the same as it is and has been. The word GRANTED, in this case, means taken as a given fact.
He took for granted that his mother would always cook him breakfast.
She took for granted that the sun would come up.
He took for granted that she would love him no matter what he did.
2007-10-13 21:20:07 · answer #3 · answered by Alicia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One meaning of the expression 'take for granted' is:
take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof.
This means that some things are taken to be natural or accepted as being there without our asking or seeking them. While we do take a lot of things in day to day life 'for granted', if this is carried on without discretion, it could land us in trouble.
'Granted' here would mean given without any expectation or as a matter of right.
2007-10-13 22:39:56 · answer #4 · answered by greenhorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Underappriciating something.
2007-10-13 21:00:57 · answer #5 · answered by Ethernaut 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means u don't know how good u got something until it's gone
2007-10-13 20:36:11 · answer #6 · answered by "The Guru" 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Means your not appreciating it the way you should.
2007-10-13 20:35:01 · answer #7 · answered by Beans 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋