Take a powder
Idiomatic translations of "Take a powder"
Meanings of "Take a powder"
To have a moment to calm and regain your composure. As a imperative it means to stop your current actions or words.
Many medicines were taken in powder form doses before the advent of tablets and capsules. Some were for sedation (to relax and/or sleep).
Ww WwTo depart quickly, especially in order to avoid a difficult situation.
Timster"Take a powder" in lyrics
Such a bright hope (Right place, right time)
What´s your number? (Never you mind)
Take a powder (But hang on a minute, what´s coming round the corner?)
Have you a future?
Rosemary Clooney - Let's get away from it all
Let's take a trip in a trailer
No need to come back at all
Let's take a powder to Boston for chowder
Let's get away from it all
Niels Frevert - Flashing on the Horizon
Well camouflaged as a dove
From the nearby roof,
To take a powder (go away) like that
With no (forwarding) telephone number?
4 Reasons Unknown - On Stranger Nights
Everyone in every place
Has something wrong to say
Take a breath or take a powder
Or take a lonely drive
Richard Marx - What's Wrong With That?
I've heard all the reasons why
(Give it up, give it up, take a powder)
I turn them my blindest eye
