take up a collection

Meaning: (idiomatic)Torequestandreceivemoneyor goods of value from members of a group, especially for acharitablepurpose.1885,Mark Twain, chapter 20, inHuckleberry Finn:Then somebody sings out, "Take up a collectionfor him,take up a collection!" Well, a half a dozen made a jump to do it, but somebody sings out, "Let HIM pass the hat around!"1915,Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 27, inK: A Novel:"But I hope nobody'stook up a collectionfor me. I don't want no charity."2001September 17, Jodie Morse, “Campus Crusader”, inTime:When Simmons won a scholarship to Dillard University, her high school teacherstook up a collectionso she'd have a coat.

Examples:

EN: While we are singing, we'll take up a collection. What for?
ES: Mientras cantamos, haremos una colecta.
EN: - Why don't you take up a collection?
ES: - ¿Por qué no hace una colecta?
EN: I'm going to take up a collection to fight the Devil.
ES: Voy a hacer una colecta para luchar contra él.
EN: I hate to speak about it, but, uh, Mrs. Flanders asked me to take up a collection at this time.
ES: Odio hablar de eso, pero la Sra. Flanders me preguntó para realizar una colección en este momento.
EN: Let's take up a collection for these innocent victims of a man's avarice.
ES: Hagamos una colecta para estas víctimas inocentes de la avaricia.
EN: Victor's a real parish priest, but parish priests don't have wives and from time to time they take up a collection.
ES: Sí, Víctor es un verdadero cura. Pero los curas no tienen mujer y de vez en cuando hacen colecta.
EN: Also, take up a collection to bury Dingo.
ES: Tambien, esta haciendo una colecta para enterrar a Dingo.
EN: If you lie, I'm gonna take up a collection for your widow.
ES: Si me mientes, organizaré una colecta para tu mujer.
EN: You work yourself to death for somebody, and likely they have to take up a collection to bury you.
ES: Para que cuando llegues a viejo tengan que hacer una colecta para enterrarte.
EN: So give me another 1,000, take up a collection right now.
ES: Más bien dame otras mil, así hago una colecta.
EN: We'll take up a collection right away.
ES: Haremos una colecta inmediatamente.
EN: First we take up a collection For the united elephant fund.
ES: Primero una colecta para el Fondo de elefantes unidos.
EN: I'll get the kids to take up a collection.
ES: Haré que los chicos empiecen una colección.
EN: Now folks, we come to the main attraction, my assistants are going to take up a collection Justlike they do in church.
ES: Ahora la gente, llegamos a la atracción principal, mis ayudantes se van a hacer una colecta Al igual que lo hacen en la iglesia.
EN: You mean take up a collection, pass the hat.
ES: O sea, que hagamos una colecta, que pasemos la gorra.

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