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what does " to do double take" mean? is it common in real life english?
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- David ALv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
YES, it is quite common. I started writing an answer to this, but I suddenly "did a double take" and realized that it was going to be more difficult to explain than I thought it was going to be. So I am taking the easy way out: Here is what Merriam-Webster says about it: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double%2...
Here is an expanded discussion from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_take
And here is a narrower view from Wiktionary:
Source(s): years + a computer