Usually means: Sit down in a church bench.
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  1. take a pew: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Take a pew: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. take a pew: Wiktionary

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  1. Take a pew: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take a pew)

▸ verb:  (UK, idiomatic) To take a seat; to sit down.

Similar:
pull up a pew, plop down, plonk, budge up, sit in, plump down, bring one's arse to an anchor, pull up a chair, take a load off, pad out, more...

Opposite:
stand, remain standing, stand up

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Similar:
pull up a pew, plop down, plonk, budge up, sit in, plump down, bring one's arse to an anchor, pull up a chair, take a load off, pad out, more...

Opposite:
stand, remain standing, stand up



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