In my mother tongue, there are two different phrases. Translating them literally: “out of the occasion of…” and “with the occasion of....” I’ve found the English equivalent of the first one, it is “on the occasion”. For e.g. I wish you or give you this or that on the occasion of your birthday/our wedding anniversary/etc. It may happen that it is not on the same day, for e.g. I wish something to somebody five days earlier or later, it doesn’t matter, only the cause is important. But I haven’t found the equivalent of the other phrase, where only the time is important. As a matter of fact it is a simple emphasising of “when.” For e.g.: “That thing happened with the occasion of Fred’s visit.” (I.e. when Fred visited us.) It may also be a birthday, just like anything else, for e.g.: “I lost my cap with the occasion of Joe’s birthday, but naturally it wasn’t a gift for Joe that I lost my cap. So what is the English phrase, if it is?
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KaaJee I lost my cap with the occasion of Joe’s birthday That is possible for the time only, but it sounds very stylized; most would simply say 'on Joe's birthday'. Does that help?
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Yes, but do you mean that in other cases this phrase is normal? I’ve rethought the thing and I think I wasn’t right. In my language, the thing that happens does have relation with the mentioned event when using “with the occasion of…” In the below case it wasn’t really so, and maybe that is why it is too stylized, isn’t it? So it’s another attempt: “There were two talks with the doctor before the