take its toll

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

take its/their/a toll idiom
If something takes its/their/a toll, it causes suffering, deaths or damage
• The problems of the past few months have taken their toll on her health and there are shadows beneath her eyes.
• The deepening recession has also taken its toll in the south of the country, where unemployment is rife.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Damaging and spoiling ↑Destroying and demolishing
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