Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract RelationsSection VI. Time
3. Time with reference to an Effect or Purpose
134. Occasion.
nick of time; golden opportunity, well-timed opportunity, fine opportunity, favorable opportunity; clear stage, fair field; mollia tempora [L.]; spare time (leisure) [See Leisure].
CRISIS, turn, emergency, juncture, conjuncture; turning point, given time.
suit the occasion (be expedient) [See Expedience].
strike the iron while it is hot, battre le fer sur l’enclume [F.], make hay while the sun shines, seize the present hour, take time by the forelock, prendre la balle au bond [F.].
lucky, providential, fortunate, happy, favorable, propitious, auspicious, critical; suitable [See Agreement]; obiter dicta [L.].
OCCASIONAL, accidental, extemporaneous, extemporary; contingent (uncertain) [See Uncertainty].
BY THE WAY, by the by; en passant [F.], à propos [F.]; pro re natâ [L.], pro hac vice [L.]; par parenthèse [F.], parenthetically, by way of parenthesis; while on this subject, speaking of; par exemple [F.]; extempore; on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion; on the spot (early) [See Earliness].
- Carpe diem.—Horace
- Occasionem cognosce.
- One’s hour is come, the time is up.
- That reminds me.
- Bien perdu bien connu.
- È sempre l’ora.
- Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.
- Nosce tempus.
- Nunc aut nunquam.
- There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.—Julius Cæsar
- The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on.—Omar Khayyám—Fitzgerald