take up where (someone/something) left off

to continue something that was started by someone or something.

Five years after their first album, the band takes up where they left with the release of their new disc.

If the legislature won't approve the deal, the court will try to take up where the legislature leaves off and impose a settlement.

• paint a [bleak/rosy etc.] picture of something
• paint a picture
• paint a ... picture of
• paint a picture of
• paint a ... picture of something
• paint a picture of something
• paint a rosy picture of
• paint a rosy picture of something
• paint into a corner
• paint someone into a corner
• paint someone with the same brush
• paint something with the same brush
• paint the town
• paint the town red
• paint with the same brush
• paint yourself into a corner
• pal around
• pal around with
• pal around with someone
• pale by comparison
• pale in comparison
• pale in comparison with
• pale in comparison with something
• pale into insignificance
• palm off