seize the opportunity

Verb

seize the opportunity (third-person singular simple present seizes the opportunity, present participle seizing the opportunity, simple past and past participle seized the opportunity)

1. (idiomatic) To immediately seize a particular opportunity.
   • Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act.1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC
   • The “lazies” of the party seized the opportunity of remaining behind—wandering, as they said, though all the cross paths were marked.1874, David Livingstone, chapter 7, in The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to his death, volume I, London: John Murray, page 159

   Synonyms:

   jump at the chance, jump at the opportunity