double take

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

if you do a double take, you wait for a moment before you react to sth that has happened, because it is very surprising

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

double takeEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary double takeEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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