have (one's) name taken

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have (one's) name taken

In football (soccer), to receive a yellow card (and thus have one's name recorded in the referee's booklet). It's questionable whether that slide tackle really warranted the penalty, but she's had her name taken regardless.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Altwidus	-	Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
ŠÁRka	-	Czech
Manuele	mah-NWE-le	Italian
Tupaarnaq	-	Native American, Greenlandic
Lucia	loo-CHEE-ah (Italian), LOO-tsee-ah (German), LOO-shə (English), loo-SEE-ə (English)	Italian, German, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Slovak, Ancient Roman
Michel	mee-SHEL (French), MI-khel (German)	French, German, Dutch