/ · 1894 Brewer’s · I · Improve the Occasion (To)
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To draw a moral lesson from some event which has occurred. In French, “Profitons de lʹoccasion.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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