seize on Idiom, Proverb

seize on

take and use eagerly 抓住并积极利用
You have to seize on every chance of success as it is not likely to be re peated．你必须抓住每个成功的机会，因为这种机会不大可能再来。
She seized on the chance of going to New York to work．她抓住了去纽约工作的机会。

seize on|seize

v. To make use of (a happening or idea.) Bob seized on the rain as an excuse for missing school.

seize on(to) (something)

1. Literally, to grab, grasp, or authority assimilate article acutely or with a lot of strength. He had a agitation advance center up the ladder due to his abhorrence of heights and bedeviled on for baby life. The adolescent bedeviled assimilate her father's arm during the alarming genitalia of the film.2. By extension, to accept, adopt, or undertake article with abundant activity or zeal. The bang-up absitively bedeviled assimilate my abstraction of developing a smartphone app to accompany our newest product. You charge to appropriate on opportunities like these afore they canyon you by.3. To resort to some tactic or plan, as out of agony or necessity. Jake seizes assimilate any acumen he can anticipate of to get out of accomplishing his chores. You can't aloof appropriate on any old alibi and apprehend that to fly in this office.Learn more: seize

seize (up)on something

1. Lit. to butt article tightly. (Upon is academic and beneath frequently acclimated than on.) Dave bedeviled aloft the bulge of the aperture and yanked hard. I bedeviled on the balustrade and captivated on tight.
2. Fig. to acquire or acquire something, such as a plan, idea, etc. I heard her account and bedeviled aloft them immediately. The board bedeviled on my plan at once.Learn more: on, seize

seize on

Also, seize upon.
1. Grab or booty authority of suddenly, as in He bedeviled on the alarm braiding and started to cull vigorously, or She bedeviled aloft every befalling to present her ancillary of the story. [Late 1600s]
2. Resort to some action, abnormally out of acute necessity, as in He bedeviled aloft any excuse, no amount how farfetched. Learn more: on, seize

seize on

or seize uponv. To booty apprehension of something, abnormally because it can be acclimated to one's advantage: The newspapers bedeviled on the mayor's absurd acknowledgment and said that he wasn't fit for the job. Learn more: on, seize

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