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about time
Idioms and Phrases
Long past the right time; also, approximately the right time. Thus, It's about time you went to bed can mean either that you should have gone to bed much earlier (often stated with emphasis on the word time ), or that now is the appropriate time for you to retire. [Early 1900s] For a synonym, see high time .Example Sentences
As a child, I wondered why the boy hated his grandfather so much and why he didn’t just kill the man in the present, so as an adult, I enjoy it when fiction about time travel addresses tricky interpersonal questions.
He said it was "about time" Amazon created a "truly smart and useful assistant".
"It's about time we showed them we are the better team," he added.
"It's about time that the lid is lifted on this disaster, this national scandal of children who have been abused in some of the most evil acts."
Kira Stein, the chair of UCLA’s Jewish Faculty Resilience Group, said “it was about time†for the suspensions after more than a year of complaints her group has raised about SJP.
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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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