WordNet
adj. evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident" [syn: axiomatic, self-evident, taken for granted(p)]
accepted as real or true without proof; "an assumed increase in population"; "the assumed reason for his absence"; "assumptive beliefs"; "his loyalty was taken for granted" [syn: assumed, assumptive, taken for granted(p)]
Wikipedia
"Taken for Granted" is the debut single by Sia. It was released in 2000 and in June of that year, debuted at number 10 on the UK Singles Charts. It stayed on the charts for a total of five weeks. It is the first single of Sia's second studio album, Healing Is Difficult. It was written by Sia and produced by Nigel Corsbie and heavily samples from Sergei Prokofiev's ' Montagues and Capulets'
Sia performed the song on Top of the Pops.
Usage examples of "taken for granted".
Fighter pilots flew in one-man kites and did their own navigation-without computers, homing devices, or anything that would be taken for granted today-or even later that century.
Presently I found it taken for granted that Pat was going and I was staying.
To the Namdaleni, to the Khamorth, to the Romans, a free tongue was taken for granted, but this was the Empire, an ancient land steeped in ceremonial regard for the imperial person.
Miro had always taken for granted what everyone knew-- that all the buggers had been destroyed.
A sense of personal destiny and importance was modestly entertained, but certainly taken for granted.
Where the comradeship was taken for granted in other units, he was about to make a request to dissolve his because of friction.
That was a life to which one simply could not return, because what had been taken for granted then would seem impossibly hard, and the skills would have gone.
I resented the fact I was going to have to deal with this break-in, surrendering a sense of safety I'd always taken for granted.
Pontellier was accepted and taken for granted, she was apparently satisfied that it should be so.
I should wish the time to remain unfixed, so that the bitterness of the war may be taken for granted in the characters.
Many felt that the great days of the Middle Kingdoms were a thousand years past, the heroes dead, the Lion and Eagle gone without intent of return, the Dragons silent, even the blue Fire of the Power cooling or being taken for granted.