Take hold

To “take hold” means to become established.

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About 150 years ago, a German physician was the first to analyze a million body temperature readings. From his research, he concluded that the normal human body temperature was 98.6 degrees. You could say that the German physician’s idea about the average human body temperature first “took hold,” or was established, about 150 years ago.

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