Pick up
Pick up verb - To acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in.
Take off
Take off verb - To leave a place often for another.
Both terms in one sentence
- They fight their way through the GEF, crash land, fight their way through the GEF again, take off, and pick up an ally: Kasey.
Source: Webcomic / Zap! - Now King Atilla must take off his crown, pick up his sword, and, like the good old days, journey to find the missing holy relic.
Source: Creator / Mikhail Akhmanov -
Because of all the damage they took in trying to pick up Ray and Geoff, Ryan and Jack realize that their plane is unable to take off anymore, and they soon crash, meaning that Michael (who doesn't even have a Wanted level anymore) has to come back with a plane to rescue them.
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Take off and Pick up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/pick_up/take_off
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