Comments on: Time, Gentlemen, Please!

By: Stephen Thorn

Stephen Thorn — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:46:13 +0000

Don’t forget “time is on my side”, “no time to lose” (or, for you Python fans, “no time Tolouse”), “we have all the time in the world”, or “time stands still.” Also, things can be done in a timely manner, one indulges in a pasttime (a hobby), and we quote “A stitch in time saves nine.”

By: cmdweb

cmdweb — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:10:35 +0000

Has no one mentioned “doing time”?

By: Vic

Vic — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:09:53 +0000

It’s about time you ran this article.

By: Shirley Stuart

Shirley Stuart — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:24:23 +0000

An impressive array of times! Another well-worn (used a lot) idiom is “time after time,” which doesn’t mean sometime later, but “again and again,” “over and over,” “repeatedly”!

In everything from love songs,

“Time after time
I tell myself that I’m
So lucky to be loving you . . . .”

to smug self-congratulation,

“Time after time, I told him not to bet all his money on that horse!” (the horse lost the race).

the idiom is used time after time. (Sometimes it comes out “time and again,” but that means the same thing.)

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:51:29 +0000

What time is it, Eccles?