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double take
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Double Take is an Australian sketch comedy series which premiered on the Seven Network on 23 July 2009. The series ended just over two months later on 24 September 2009. Although it was a show of mixed quality and only passable ratings, it featured a number ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Colleagues and friends often walked past me in the hallway, then stopped and did a double take . ▪ For me, it was an astonishing double take . ▪ One of the men glanced at him, giving a double take as he realised who it was. ▪ ...
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alt. (context colloquial English) A take, commonly used as a comical reaction to a surprising sight, in which someone casually sees something, briefly stops looking at it, realizes what it is, and snaps attention back to it with an expression of surprise ...
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n. a delayed reaction indicating surprise
Usage examples of double take.
He glanced out of the windshield, did a double take, threw the cup in the air and lunged for the brake handle.
He was within five feet of the guard before the man began a double take, perhaps waking to the camouflage pattern on his field clothes, or the different, visored helmet.
Mike spotted one that looked a bit like Assadolah and did a double take.