delay

Related to delay: developmental delay, Propagation delay

desires are nourished by delays

proverb One's interest in something will grow as one waits for it. A: "Ugh, I still haven't heard back from the recruiter at my dream job." B: "At least desires are nourished by delays."
See also: by, delay, desire, nourish

justice delayed is justice denied

Justice served at a later time has as little impact as justice not being served at all. A: "We need to get this matter before a judge quickly." B: "Of course. Justice delayed is justice denied."
See also: delay, deny, justice
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Desires are nourished by delays.

Prov. The longer you have to wait for something you want, the more eager you will be to get it. The longer I had to postpone my trip to San Francisco, the more eagerly I wanted to go. Desires are nourished by delays.
See also: by, delay, Desire, nourish
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • be on (one's) back
  • be on somebody's back
  • be on someone's back
  • back at it
  • back at it (again)
  • gonna
  • (I'm) not gonna lie
  • (I'm) not going to lie
  • back onto
  • back onto (something)
References in periodicals archive
In the Draft, the time-impact delay analysis method is still recommended for contemporaneous submission and assessment of an EOT claim.
In this paper, it is proposed and theoretically demonstrated that there is a possibility of realizing and manipulating large reflected group delay of optical pulse from a modified Otto configuration with the graphene surface plasmon in THz regime.
Air traffic delays can lead to flight delay due to VIP movements, landings/takeoffs, heavy air traffic from other airports.
Tui's 2,165 flights out of Cardiff, and the 2,303 run by KLM, both had an average delay of 10 minutes.
The delay factors such as access to hospital, distance travelled, and access to timely patient care were applicable to all sorts of emergency care.
Using 2018 data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, ValuePenguin analysts compared delay times for the week leading up to Memorial Day against delay times throughout the month of May across the 30 largest airports in the country.
You can claim "delay repay" if one of your trains is late or cancelled and you get to your destination more than 15 minutes later than scheduled.
The service with the highest average delay over that time has been Pakistan International's Manchester to New York flight.
That's ahead of the 17 minute average delay passengers experienced on flights departing from Birmingham, Manchester, Luton, Jersey, and Durham Tees Valley.
"Gatwick has made it a priority to address punctuality and, in partnership with our airlines and ground handlers, we are already seeing the benefits of a new wide range of measures that Cardiffairport highest proportion FLIGHTs delayed by than three in 2017 have been implemented to improve our punctuality."
"Gatwick has made it a priority to address punctuality and, in partnership with our airlines and ground handlers, we are already seeing the benefits of a new wide range of measures that Cardiff airport had highest proportion FLIGHTs delayed by than three hours in 2017 have been implemented to improve our punctuality."
Londo comav1 London City, by comparison, had an average delay of just 10 minutes across its 75,797 flights in 2017 - making it the most punctual airport in the UK.
Meanwhile, studies also found that delay time may be magnified when two subsequent flights are sharing the same aircraft (Kondo [10]).
Due to various reasons, prevalence [11,12] of speech delay is on the rise.