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take up a collection
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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.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.
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