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mark time
Idioms and Phrases
Wait idly for something to occur, as in We were just marking time until we received our instructions . This idiom alludes to the literal meaning of marching in place to the time , or beat, of music. [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
But I find that once you put a number down on paper, you can mark time against it.
Trees can spark memories, mark time and give us a comforting place to return to.
Trees, it turns out, can spark memories, mark time and give us a comforting place to return to.
Rcd1 Rea8, doubling rooks on a closed file, is a bit of a tell that he can only mark time as White dictates the play.
Mendes pays homage to the films of his youth by way of the films that play as a way to mark time: “Stir Crazy” here, “Raging Bull” there; but his ode to the medium he loves goes even deeper, not just to its power to generate empathy, but to its pluralism.
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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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