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take for granted 

To give little attention to or to underestimate the value of, to fail to appreciate.
Usually the epiphany of having taking something for granted comes after its already gone.
You take for granted all the love i give. I best give it to someone else.

Take for Granted 

To expect someone or something to be always available to serve in some way without thanks or recognition; to value someone or something too lightly.
After a while in a relationship you begin to take for granted the other person, desensitizing their importance.
Take for Granted by peaceINaBLUNT December 15, 2011

take for granted 

To assume you will never lose something. Commonly followed by losing it.
You take for granted your hands, buddy. Let's see how you do without them.

take for granted 

something that is a given from the beginning of your life to the end
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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