takes for
Believes to be
Takes for means to perceive or assume someone or something to be a particular thing, often mistakenly: I took him for a tourist, She took the comment for a compliment.
The phrase often implies misjudgment or underestimation: What do you take me for, an idiot?
He took her silence for agreement.
- attributeQuality assigned to something
- chalk up toAttribute to a cause
- misunderstandGrasp incorrectly
- misjudgeEvaluate incorrectly
- presumeAccept without verification
misconstrue · assume · jump to conclusions · deem · stereotype · assign · suppose · regard · consider · generalize · pass off as · project · identify · size up · assess · intuit · infer · imagine