<span class="searchmatch">taken</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">step</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> past participle of take <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">step</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span>...
participle <span class="searchmatch">taken</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">step</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span>) (figuratively) To withdraw temporarily from <span class="searchmatch">a</span> situation in order to evaluate it; to cease one's course of action and take <span class="searchmatch">a</span> moment...
someone is <span class="searchmatch">stepping</span> in <span class="searchmatch">step</span> and repeat <span class="searchmatch">step</span> aside <span class="searchmatch">step</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> <span class="searchmatch">step</span> between <span class="searchmatch">step</span> dance <span class="searchmatch">step</span> down <span class="searchmatch">step</span> forth <span class="searchmatch">step</span> forward <span class="searchmatch">step</span>-in <span class="searchmatch">step</span> in <span class="searchmatch">step</span> into <span class="searchmatch">step</span> into someone's...
(diminutive kroczk, related adjective kroczny or krokòwi) <span class="searchmatch">step</span>, pace (motion <span class="searchmatch">taken</span> while walking) <span class="searchmatch">step</span>, pace (distance covered by such an action) (anatomy)...
Times[1]: Masters and Johnson wanted their work to be <span class="searchmatch">taken</span> seriously, and wanted to stay <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">step</span> ahead of the morality police, so they tended to write...
come to <span class="searchmatch">a</span> sudden and unexpected stop, particularly while speaking or driving <span class="searchmatch">a</span> vehicle. 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle: He had only <span class="searchmatch">taken</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">step</span> forward...
Barnstaple headquarters, has been <span class="searchmatch">taken</span> over by <span class="searchmatch">a</span> fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned <span class="searchmatch">back</span> by the pungent odour of heaps...
<span class="searchmatch">step</span> on to beat with one's feet; to trample From Middle English tred, from treden (“to tread”). tread (plural treads) <span class="searchmatch">A</span> <span class="searchmatch">step</span> <span class="searchmatch">taken</span> with the foot. <span class="searchmatch">A</span> manner...
<span class="searchmatch">A</span> <span class="searchmatch">Step</span>-by-<span class="searchmatch">Step</span> Workbook for Parents and Carers, Jessica Kingsley Publsihers, published 2006, →ISBN, page 132: The reward could be <span class="searchmatch">a</span> preferred food, <span class="searchmatch">a</span>...
linen-press and <span class="searchmatch">a</span> chest on the top of it formed, however, <span class="searchmatch">a</span> very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be <span class="searchmatch">taken</span> out of the window […], and <span class="searchmatch">a</span> 'bead' could...