Taking up an exam

[Mark Mandel]

I was thinking of uses like these:
 - "He took up philately after he retired."
 - "That covers the holiday committee's business. Shall we take up the
redecoration issue next?"

m a m

On 10/13/07, ronbutters at aol.com <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:
>
> The only way I have ever used it is as a synonym for "collect"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>
>
> Never heard it in that sense, but it seems to be a short and
> straightforward
> step from the more general sense of "take up" as 'begin consideration of'
> [a
> subject].
>
>  [ ...]

> Geoff Nathan wrote:
> > > In discussion late last night among linguists who are both Canadian
> and
> > > American the expression to 'take up an exam' came up (sorry...)
> > > Are readers here familiar with the sense 'go over an exam after it has
> > > been returned to explain the correct answers'? [...]
>
>

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