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词汇 stake a claim
释义
Idiom
stake a claim (to something)
Theme: OWNERSHIP - CLAIM
to lay or make a claim for something. (Informal.)
I want to stake a claim to that last piece of pie.You don't need to stake a claim. Just ask politely.
Idiom
stake a claimstake a claim (to something)
1.
to announce that something belongs to you.
Every kind of group you can think of has staked a claim to space on the Internet.
Usage notes: also used in the form stake your claim:
He staked his claim as a liberal.
2.
to show that you believe something is yours.
In recent years, several big stores have staked a claim to the wealthy shoppers in this area.Stevens has staked a claim to a new brand of techno music with a series of exciting concerts.
Etymology: based on the literal meaning of stake a claim (= to mark with posts a piece of land belonging to the government that you claim for yourself)

stake a claim

To assert one's ownership of or right to something. My great-grandfather staked a claim to this land. You can't have this cookie because someone else already staked a claim to it.

stake a claim to someone or something

Fig. to state or record one's claim on someone or something. (Alludes to marking off an area by pounding in wooden stakes.) she staked a claim to Jeff and told all her rivals to stay away. The prospector staked a claim to the gold-rich area.

stake a claim

Also, stake out a claim. Indicate something as one's own, as in I'm staking a claim to the drumstick, or She staked out a claim for herself in the insurance business. This term, dating from the mid-1800s, originally meant "register a claim to land by marking it with stakes." It was being used figuratively by the late 1800s.

stake a claim

declare your right to something.
This expression refers to the practice of putting stakes around the perimeter of a piece of land to which a claim is laid. It is American in origin, dating from the California gold rush of 1849 , when the prospectors registered their claims to individual plots of land in this way.

stake (out) a/your ˈclaim to somebody/something

say that you have a special interest in somebody/something, or have a right to own something, especially to warn other people not to take it: Both countries have staked out a claim to the land.If you staked out your claim to some land, you put stakes (= wooden posts) in the ground to mark the limits of land that you claimed was yours.
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