take the stand

to go to and sit in the witness chair in a courtroom. I was in court all day, waiting to take the stand. The lawyer asked the witness to take the stand.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ignatius	ig-NAY-shəs (English)	Late Roman
Gethsemane	geth-SEM-ə-nee (English)	Biblical
Lennie	LEN-ee	English
Drummond	-	English (Rare)
Mila	-	Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian
Adelbert	AH:-dəl-bərt (Dutch)	German, Dutch