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take the stage

1. To walk onto a stage, as to begin a performance, deliver a speech, etc. Our band took the stage to perform our new song for the audience. I've spoken in front of countless audiences, but I still get extremely nervous before I take the stage for a presentation.

2. To be or become the main or central focus. My wedding was supposed to be my special day, but my sister and her stupid boyfriend took the stage when he proposed to her at the wedding reception. I really don't want our production issues to take the stage during the investors' meeting.

take the stage

Fig. to become the center of attention; to become the focus of everyone's attention. Later in the day, the problems in the warehouse took the stage, and we discussed them until dinnertime.

See also: stage, take

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Freddy Dove always covered himself with glory in this part, and "took the stage" with a Napoleonic attitude that brought down the house; for the big-headed boy, with solemn, dark eyes and square brow, was "the very moral of that rascal, Boneyparty," Mother Atkinson said.

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Cavendish - who had crashed 34 kilometres from the finish of the stage - appeared to pull up just before the line, knowing he was beaten as Greipel took the stage win from Peter Sagan and Marcel Kittel.

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Veteran South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela took the stage with Grazing in the Grass, a No1 international hit in 1968.