A list of Flash cards featuring idioms of time and their usage. Idioms as best learned by using them to make sentence. Reading idioms is more of a habit one must develop to improve communication in the long run
2. Idioms for Time
Meaning:
The very beginning of daylight (dawn).
Usage:
The older generation have a habit waking up at the crack of
dawn, that too without alarms.
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4. Idioms for Time
Meaning:
If you do something in a timely manner you will succeed.
Usage:
We managed to get the best seats for the concert. I guess
the early bird does catch the worm.
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6. Idioms for Time
Meaning:
If you fix a small problem right away, it will not become a
bigger problem later. .
Usage:
Let's fix the car before we all meet with some terrible
accident. A stitch in time saves nine after all.
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8. Idioms for Time
Meaning:
To postpone an event hoping that the situation will improve.
Usage:
Please buy me some time so that i can get this fixed in the
best wa.
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10. Idioms for Time
Meaning:
Do something that is not very interesting to pass time.
Usage:
In the absence of an active internet connection, the
employees killed time by playing some games.
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12. Idioms for Time
Meaning:
to say that a day's work has been completed
Usage:
We have been at this for hours; let's call it a day and come
back tomorrow when we are fresh.
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14. Idioms for Time
Meaning:
Doing something against the clock means you are rushed
and have very little time to do it.
Usage:
She didn’t do it right the first few times so now she is working
against the clock to finish off the work on time.
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16. Idioms for Time
Meaning:
This suggests that it is better to do something late than not
do it at all.
Usage:
Anna finally consulted a doctor about her recurring
headaches. I told her it was better late than never.
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18. Idioms for Time
Meaning:
When something happens at the very last minute.
Usage:
It was the eleventh hour for lunch time by the time we
checked in into the hotel.
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20. Idioms for Time
Meaning:
If something happens in the blink of an eye, it happens
nearly instantaneously, with hardly enough time to notice it.
Usage:
She disappeared into the room in the blink of an eye. I swear
she was here a second ago!!!
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