take a chair

take a chair (third-person singular simple present takes a chair, present participle taking a chair, simple past took a chair, past participle taken a chair)

1. To sit down (usually, but not always, in a chair).
   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

     Consequently Mr. Micawber was soon so overcome, that he mingled his tears with hers and mine; until he begged me to do him the favour of taking a chair on the staircase, while he got her into bed.

• pull up a chair
• take the chair
• take a seat