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cue
(redirected from taking cue from)

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(right) on cue
as if planned to happen exactly at that moment. We were traveling up a narrow river in East Africa when, right on cue, a hippopotamus thrust its head out of the water.

take your cue from someone/something

to be strongly influenced by someone or something else. The national assembly takes its cue from the president and seldom challenges her policies. His new tunes take their cues from the music of Africa and Cuba.
See also: from, take
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