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time hangs heavy
Idioms and Phrases
Also, time hangs heavy on one's hands . Time passes slowly, as in She adjusted quite well to the nursing home, except that she says time hangs heavy on her hands . This metaphoric term, first recorded in the late 1760s, likens the passage of time to a burdensome weight.Example Sentences
Telemakhos answered: âLord, son of Atreus, no, you must not keep me. Not that a year with you would be too long: I never could be homesick hereâI find your tales and all you say so marvellous. But time hangs heavy on my shipmatesâ hands at holy Pylos, if you make me stay.
An occasional caller may come to pay his or her visit; but otherwise the time hangs heavy on her hands.
You are longing always for your dead wife and children, and you are often thinking of your youth, and with you the days are long and time hangs heavy.
You see, time hangs heavy on my hands here.
This thankless task is attended to by sports writers on whose hands time hangs heavy when the football season is over.
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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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