take it from me

• you can take it from me
• you may take it from me

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take it from me (third-person singular simple present takes it from me, present participle taking it from me, simple past took it from me, past participle taken it from me)

1. Believe me; rest assured.

   Take it from me, if you can't learn how to communicate with each other, your marriage will never work.

   • 1973, Donny Hathaway, Edward Howard, “Someday We'll All Be Free”, in Extension of a Man, performed by Donny Hathaway:

     Take it from me, someday we'll all be free

• take someone's word for it

• “take it from me”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “take it from me”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “take it from me”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “take it from me” (US) / “take it from me” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.