Natural English
An idiom is a group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual words. For example, “Let the cat out of the bag” does not mean that you literally let a cat out of a bag. It means that you told a secret by mistake.
Idioms can be difficult to understand because they don’t mean what you think they mean. Using idioms will make your speech sound more natural. What idioms do you know?
The safety video says, “Healthcare workers may take for granted the hazards in the workplace.”
Read this definition from the Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries for the idiom "to take someone or something for granted".
Now read the definition and the example sentences from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.
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