take a gander

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take a gander

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First recorded in 1887, based on craning the neck like a goose.

verb takes a gander · taking a gander · took a gander · taken a gander

  1. idiomatic To take a look; to check or examine. They all went downtown to take a gander at the new shops that had opened there.

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