take a pew

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• take a pew — british spoken phrase used for telling someone in a friendly way to sit down with you Thesaurus: in a sitting positionsynonym Main entry: pew …   Useful english dictionary

• take a pew! — ˌtake a ˈpew! idiom (BrE, informal, humorous) used to tell sb to sit down Main entry: ↑pewidiom …   Useful english dictionary

• Take a pew. — British & Australian, humorous if you tell someone to take a pew, you are asking them to sit down. Come in and take a pew …   New idioms dictionary

• take a pew — British spoken used for telling someone in a friendly way to sit down with you …   English dictionary

• pew — pew1 [ pju ] noun count a long wooden seat in a church take a pew BRITISH SPOKEN used for telling someone in a friendly way to sit down with you pew pew 2 [ pju ] interjection AMERICAN SPOKEN used for saying you smell something unpleasant …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• pew — UK [pjuː] / US [pju] noun [countable] Word forms pew : singular pew plural pews a long wooden seat in a church • take a pew …   English dictionary

• pew — pew1 [pju:] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: puie, from Latin podia, plural of podium; PODIUM] 1.) a long wooden seat in a church 2.) take a pew BrE spoken used humorously to invite someone to sit down pew 2 pew2 …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Pew — chair; any place to sit down: take a pew …   Dictionary of Australian slang

• pew — Australian Slang chair; any place to sit down: take a pew …   English dialects glossary

• pew — n British a chair. A colloquialism usually heard in the verb form take a pew : sit down. This humorously elevated version of chair arose around the turn of the 20th century …   Contemporary slang

• pew — 1 noun (C) 1 a long wooden seat in a church 2 take a pew BrE spoken used to invite someone to sit down 2 interjection AmE spoken used when there is a very unpleasant smell; pooh BrE …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English