take the rap, stripper, digs, stride, take ... in (one's) stride

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Facebook Inc. has leased a nine-building Silicon Valley office campus to serve as its new headquarters, the latest indication of the social network's phenomenal growth.
Facebook said it will start moving into its new Menlo Park, Calif., digs, the former headquarters of Sun Microsystems, starting in June or July, roughly two years after moving to its current location in neighboring Palo Alto, Calif.

"The president kind of keeps to himself," Kimmel said. "Somebody throws him a basketball, he makes a shot. He ruins everything."

Most of those on the receiving end of jokes take it in stride.

take the rap

PHRASE

If you take the rap, you are blamed or punished for something, especially something that is not your fault or for which other people are equally guilty.

[informal]

When the money went missing, she took the rap, but did she really do it?

Synonyms: take the blame, be blamed, be punished, suffer the consequences   More Synonyms of take the rap

stride

verb [ I always + adv/prep ]

US 

 /strɑɪd/

past tense and past participle strode US/stroʊd/ | past participle stridden US/strɪd·ən/

stride verb [I always + adv/prep] (WALK)

 

to walk somewhere quickly with long steps:

She strode across the room and demanded to speak to the manager.

 

stride

noun

US 

 /strɑɪd/

stride noun (DEVELOPMENT)

 

[ C usually pl ]

an important positive development:

They have already made great strides in improving service.

stride noun (WALK)

 

[ C ]

a step, esp. a long step:

He reached me in one long stride.

take ... in (one's) stride

…を楽々と［冷静に］処理する［やり遂げる, 切り抜ける］.

Speaking of women, first ladies have been known to get in their own digs.

In 2005, Laura Bush said friends went out one night to see male strippers after Bush, "Mr. Excitement," was typically fast asleep at 9 p.m.

First lady Hillary Clinton was featured in a video clip shown at the 2000 dinner. Seated in a limousine, she told the camera, "I wish I could be here more, but I really think Bill has everything under control."

dig

Sports. To strike or redirect (a ball) just before it hits the ground, as in tennis or volleyball.

Slang.

1. To understand fully: Do you dig what I mean?
2. To like, enjoy, or appreciate: "They really dig our music and, daddy, I dig swinging for them" (Louis Armstrong).
3. To take notice of: Dig that wild outfit.

digs Lodgings.