51Թ

Advertisement

Advertisement

take up a collection



Discover More

Idioms and Phrases

Request and gather donations, as in They were taking up a collection for the church that burned down , or The veterans' group takes up a collection every month of household goods and furniture . This idiom was first recorded in 1849.
Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

I made a comment when I was in pretty good position on the leaderboard that maybe all the guys on tour should take up a collection and offer to send him to grad school or something.

From

No one needs to take up a collection for players who advance deep into tournaments, but the economics of being a solid professional tennis player can be challenging.

From

Take up a collection with neighbors of all that stuff we’ve hoarded and donate it to a soup kitchen or food pantry.

From

He complained about not being able to take up a collection after his prayer at the Obama inauguration, and he once said he wished that Dr. King’s birthday was in a warmer month than January, since he always seemed to be invited to speak in cold weather.

From

“A bay mate was killed in a plane crash and the rest of us had to take up a collection to get her body back home to Portland because they wouldn’t pay for it.”

From

Advertisement

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement