take something as read
verb1
Idiomatic To assume that everyone agrees that something is correct.
- We can take your resignation as read, can we?
- Any one wish to see it? No? Then we will take it as read. I know that in such a matter, my patrons, my word is enough for you.1901, H. Rider Haggard, Pearl-Maiden:
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- Poor old George! All right, sir, you needn't tell me about him. Usual story. Decentish job--imprudent marriage--chucks everything to join up in 1914--invalided out--job gone--health gone--no money--heroic wife keeping the home-fires burning--general fed-upness. Don't let's harrow our feelings. Take it as read.1928, Dorothy Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club: