what it takes
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- (US, idiomatic) Everything that is required, especially skill or endurance.
- You don't know what it takes to succeed at competitive frisbee.
- 1974, Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon, “Bette Davis Eyes”, in Mistaken Identity[1], performed by Kim Carnes, published 1981:
- She's precocious, and she knows just / What it takes to make a pro blush