take berties

take berties
vb
British
a.
to behave in a presumptuous or intru-sive way
b.
to take advantage (of someone)
► You can stay but just don't go taking berties.
The jocular phrase, used by university students from the later 1990s, is a shortening of the colloquial 'take liberties'.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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