seize an opportunity

verb

Roget 106: continue last endure, go on, remain, persist; intervene; elapse etc. 109; hold out.    take time, take up time, fill time, occupy time.    pass time, pass away time, spend time, while away time, consume time, talk against time; tide over; use time, employ time; seize an opportunity etc. 134; waste time etc. (be inactive) 683.    ... show more

Roget 134: seize an opportunity etc. (take) 789, use an opportunity etc. 677, give an opportunity etc. 784, use an occasion; improve the occasion.    suit the occasion etc. (be expedient) 646.    seize the occasion, strike while the iron is hot, battre le fer sur l'enclume [Fr.], make hay while the sun shines, seize the present hour, take time by the forelock, prendre la balle au bond [Fr.].    ... show more

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