Book of Kells
/kɛlz
/An illuminated manuscript of the Gospels, perhaps made by Irish monks in Iona in the 8th or early 9th century, now kept at Trinity College, Dublin.
Origin
Kells, the name of a town in County Meath, Ireland, where the manuscript was formerly kept.
- take odds
- take off
- take-off board
- take-off roll
- take-off speed
- take on
- take one for the team
- take one's chance
- take one's courage in both hands
- take one's cue from
- take oneself off
- take one's hat off to
- take one's leave
- take one's life in one's hands
- take one's medicine
- take one's place
- take one's seat
- take one's time
- take (or bear) the consequences
- take (or bring) someone down a peg or two
- take (or catch) someone's fancy
- take (or draw) someone aside
- take (or draw) someone to/on one side
- take (or get) a pounding
- take (or get) one's lumps