take the stage

1. 1.

   attract attention onto oneself

   Synonymstake stage

Questions about take the stage

What does take the stage mean?

take the stage means "attract attention onto oneself".

What is another word for take the stage?

Close synonyms include take stage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take the stage a common word?

take the stage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.