1. take five - Verb
2. take five - Phrase
take a break for five minutes
Source: WordNetI used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television. John McGahern
Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down. Jack Canfield
If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything. Wyclef Jean
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down. Jack Canfield
I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing. Urs Fischer
The musicians took five during the rehearsal Source: Internet