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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Improve the Occasion

(To). To draw a moral lesson from some event which has occurred. In French, “Profitons de l'occasion.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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