take occasion | Idiomator

Meaning: (dated,idiomatic)Totake advantageof anopportunity.1724,Daniel Defoe,Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress: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, Itook occasionto be much less complaisant to him than I used to be;[…]1665November 17 (date written; Gregorian calendar),Samuel Pepys,Mynors Bright, transcriber, “November 7th, 1665”, inHenry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor,The Diary of Samuel Pepys[…], volume V, London:George Bell & Sons[…]; Cambridge:Deighton Bell & Co., published1895,→OCLC:Home to dinner, and there Itook 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[…]

Examples:

EN: And when you were graveled for lack of matter... - you might take occasion to kiss.
ES: Y cuando os vierais complacido a deteneros, por falta de materia, aprovecharíais la ocasión para besarme.
EN: take occasion to suggest that it is the duty of the medical profes-
HI: डॉक्टरों की क्या है सलाह-
EN: From the narrative thus explained, I would take occasion to bring forward four admonitions.
TE: ఇది ప్రయోజనాత్మక చిత్రం కాబట్టి, నాలుగు మంచి మాటలు చెప్పడానికి నా అంతట నేను ముందుకువచ్చాను.

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