take after

Meaning

1. Oxford67% of films

   to look or behave like an older member of your family, especially your mother or father

   Must take after her mom.

2. Oxford33% of films

   to follow sb quickly

   But why would these guys join up and take after us, though?

In the movies · 5

• But why would these guys join up and take after us, though?Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid1969
• Are you in the habit of riding off in the rain with strangers?Braveheart1995
• Must take after her mom.Transformers: Age of Extinction2014
• Girls always take after their daddies.Nightmare Alley2021
• I take after my mum.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire2005
• He takes after his uncle.Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse2023
• Charles takes after me, Miss Schlegel.Howards End1992
• It's you she takes after.Braveheart1995

Learn it in full scenes

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid1969
  • Sundance Accused of Cheating at Cards
  • Harvey Challenges Butch's Leadership
  • The Posse Rides Out

From the same entry

• I, you, can't take anywhere
• have what it takes
• take as it comes
• take it
• take it from me
• take it on yourself to do
• can take it or leave it
• take it lot out of
• take some lot of doing
• take that
• take aback
• take against

More phrasal verbs

• settle for
• fall out
• hang up on
• catch up with
• be cut out for
• sit up
• stand up to
• come together
• sit about
• go back to
• root for
• turn back