What does take the flak mean?

take the flak

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English

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Informal; Intransitive verb

"The manager's going to take the flak for taking our star player off the pitch."
"“When we released GPT-3,” Sam Altman told me over lunch at a restaurant off the Embarcadero in San Francisco, “we took a lot of flak from the community for putting it behind the API”[…]"

takes the flak (present, singular) taking the flak (participle, present) took the flak (past) taken the flak (participle, past)

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