Meaning of take occasion | Babel Free

Definitions

To take advantage of an opportunity.

dated, idiomatic

Examples

“He grew old and fretful, and captious, and I must add⟳, which made the vice itself begin⟳ to grow⟳ surfeiting and nauseous to me, he grew worse and wickeder the older he grew, and that to such degree as is not fit to write⟳ of, and made me so weary of him that upon one of his capricious humours, which he often took occasion to trouble⟳ me with, I took occasion to be much less complaisant to him than I used to be; […]”

“Home to dinner, and there I took occasion, from the blacknesse of the meat as it came out of the pot, to fall⟳ out with my wife and my maid for their sluttery […]”

CEFR level