time

Related to time: Time zones

time

informal A term of imprisonment. Used especially in the phrase "do time." Did you hear that Rick's an ex-con? He did time back in the '70s. Looks like she's going to be doing some time for her role in the embezzlement scheme.

time out

1. noun A brief pause, break, or hiatus from something. I wish I had taken time out before starting this job—that might have kept me from getting burned out so quickly, Take time out for lunch. Work will still be here when you get back.
2. noun In sports, an official break in play allotted to each team. Sometimes hyphenated. They had better take a time-out here to set up a play. They burned their time-outs earlier in the half, so they have none remaining.
3. noun A punishment for young children who have misbehaved that consists of secluding them from activities and other people for a brief period of time. Sometimes hyphenated. If you keep throwing your toys like that, I'm going to give you a time out! I think he might need a time-out.
4. verb To cease or suspend operation, especially after being idle for a certain period of time. The demo of the video game will time out after 15 minutes. To save power and reduce the risk of harming the display, computer monitors are set to time out after 20 minutes of inactivity.
5. interjection Stop the clock. Said during sporting events. Time out, ref! One of our guys is injured.
6. interjection By extension, stop talking or doing what you're doing. OK, wait, time out—you didn't tell me that you and Tom were dating again! Time out! We are not driving this car another foot if you are going to keep acting like this!
See also: out, time
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

time (out)

Stop everything for just a minute! "Hey, stop a minute! Time out!" yelled Mary as the argument grew in intensity. Right in the middle of the discussion, Alice said, "Time!" Then she announced that dinner was ready.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See:
  • (a) quarter of (a given hour in time)
  • (and) not before time!
  • (goodbye) until next time
  • (it's) (a)bout time
  • (it's) about time
  • (it's) better to be late than be dead on time
  • (it's) time to call it a day
  • (it's) time to call it a night
  • (it's) time to cruise
  • (it's) time to go
  • (it's) time to hit the road
  • (it's) time to jet off (to some place)
  • (it's) time to move along
  • (it's) time to push along
  • (it's) time to push off
  • (it's) time to run
  • (it's) time to shove off
  • (it's) time to split
  • (one) puts (one's) pants on one leg at a time
  • (only) time will tell
  • (some) time (a)round
  • (someone's or something's) time has come
  • A good time was had by all
  • About time too
  • Catch me later
  • Do you have the time?
  • Good-bye for now
  • Have a good time
  • Have you got the time?
  • Having a wonderful time. Wish you were here.
  • He puts his pants on one leg at a time
  • I can't remember the last time (something happened)
  • I don't have time to breathe
  • I don't have time to catch my breath
  • I had a good time
  • I had a lovely time
  • I'll try to catch (one) some other time
  • I'm having quite a time
  • I've had a lovely time
  • I/we had a good time
  • I/we had a lovely time
  • I/we had a nice time
  • Is that the time?
  • It's about time!
  • It's time we should be going
  • Life is short and time is swift
  • Maybe some other time
  • Run that by me again
  • Run that by me one more time
  • Run that by one more time
  • There is a time and a place for everything
  • Time and tide wait for no man
  • Time hangs heavy on hands
  • Time is a great healer
  • Time is of the essence
  • Time out!
  • Time to call it a day
  • Time to call it a night
  • Time works wonders
  • Time!
  • Times change and we with time
  • You're wasting my time
  • a (ticking) time bomb
  • a (unit of time) or two
  • a bad time
  • a bitch of (something)
  • a devil of a time
  • a full-time job
  • a good time was had by all
  • a hard time
  • a legend in (one's) own lifetime
  • a legend in (one's) own lunchtime
  • a legend in (one's) own time
  • a matter of time
  • a question of time
  • a race against time
  • a race against time/the clock
  • a rough time
  • a stitch in time
  • a stitch in time (saves nine)
  • a week is a long time in politics
  • a whale of a (good) time
  • about time
  • about time too
  • against the clock
  • against time
  • ahead of (one's)/its time
  • ahead of (someone or something's) time
  • ahead of (someone's or something's) time
  • ahead of one's time
  • ahead of time
  • ahead of your time
  • ahead of your/its time
  • ahead of/behind time
  • all in good time
  • all the time
  • all the time in the world
  • all-time high (low)
  • any day now
  • any minute, day, time, etc. now
  • any old place
  • any old thing
  • any old thing, time, place, etc.
  • any old time
  • any time
  • any time means no time
  • anytime you're ready
  • appear at
  • appear at some time
  • arrange for
  • arrange for some time
  • arrive (somewhere) (up)on the stroke of (some time)
  • arrive (somewhere) at the stroke of (some time)
  • arrive on the stroke of some time
  • arrow of time
  • at (one's) time of life
  • at (some time) sharp
  • at a set time
  • at a time
  • at my, your, etc. time of life
  • at no time
  • at one time
  • at one time or another
  • at present
  • at some time sharp
  • at that point
  • at that point in time
  • at the appointed time
  • at the present time
  • at the same time
  • at the stroke of (some specific time)
  • at the time
  • at this juncture/moment/point in time
  • at this moment in time
  • at this point
  • at this point in time
  • bad time
  • be a question of time
  • be ahead of (someone or something's) time
  • be ahead of (someone's or something's) time
  • be ahead of/before/in advance of your time
  • be before (one's) time
  • be before somebody's time
  • be caught in a time warp
  • be in a time warp
  • be in advance of (someone or something's) time
  • be in advance of (someone's or something's) time
  • be in the right place at the right time
  • be in the right spot at the right time
  • be in time (with someone or something)
  • be just a matter of time
  • be just a question of time
  • be living on borrowed time
  • be locked in a time warp
  • be only a matter of time
  • be only a question of time
  • be pressed for money
  • be pressed for space
  • be pressed for time
  • be pressed/pushed for money, space, time, etc.
  • be pushed for money
  • be pushed for space
  • be pushed for time
  • be stuck in a time warp
  • be trapped in a time warp
  • be/live on borrowed time
  • bean time
  • beat time
  • become pushed for time
  • before (one's) time
  • before time
  • behind (one's) time
  • behind in
  • behind its time
  • behind time
  • better luck next time
  • bide (one's) time
  • bide one's time
  • bide one's time, to
  • bide time
  • bide your time
  • big time
  • big time, the
  • big-time
  • big-time operator
  • big-time spender
  • borrowed time
  • borrowed time, on
  • busiest men have the most leisure
  • buy (something) on time
  • buy (yourself) time
  • buy on time
  • buy time
  • by the time
  • call one's own
  • call time on (something)
  • call time on something
  • can't call (one's) time (one's) own
  • carry over to/until (some day or time)
  • catch (one) another time
  • catch (one) at a bad time
  • catch (someone) some other time
  • catch at a bad time
  • chow down
  • closing time
  • come back anytime
  • comedy equals tragedy plus time
  • copious free time
  • crunch time
  • dance out of time
  • desperate times call for desperate measures
  • desperate times require desperate measures
  • devil of a time
  • do something in your own sweet time/way
  • do time
  • do/serve time
  • don't waste your time
  • doss down for (some period of time)
  • doss down for some time
  • down time
  • downtime
  • drastic times call for drastic measures
  • drastic times require drastic measures
  • during the course of
  • every time
  • every time (one) farts
  • every time (one) turns around
  • every time I turn around
  • every time one turns around
  • exist on borrowed time
  • face time
  • fight against time
  • find the time
  • footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down
  • for old times' sake
  • for the moment
  • for the nth time
  • for the time being
  • for the umpteenth time
  • from that day/time forth
  • from this/that day forth
  • from this/that time forth
  • from time immemorial
  • from time to time
  • from/since time immemorial
  • frozen in time
  • full-time job
  • fullness of time, in the
  • gain time
  • game time
  • get a hard time (from someone)
  • get in(to) time (with someone or something)
  • get out of time
  • get out of time (with someone or something)
  • get pushed for time
  • get the time
  • get time for (someone, something, or oneself)
  • get with the times
  • getting on toward (a time)
  • give (one) a bad time
  • give (one) a hard time
  • give (one) a rough time
  • give (someone) the time of day, not to/won't
  • give a hard time
  • give it time
  • give me (someone or something) any day/time
  • give somebody a rough, hard, bad, etc. time
  • give someone the time of day
  • go down for the third time
  • good time
  • good time man
  • good-time Charley
  • good-time Charlie
  • good-time it
  • good-time man
  • greatest of all time
  • guarantee (something) against (something) for (some length of time)
  • had a nice time
  • half the time
  • hard time
  • hardly have time to breathe
  • hardly have time to think
  • have (some) time to kill
  • have (something) to play with
  • have (the) time
  • have a bad time
  • have a hard time
  • have a hard time with (someone or something)
  • have a high old time
  • have a lot of time for (someone or something)
  • have a lot of time for somebody/something
  • have a rare old time
  • have a rough time
  • have a rough time (of it)
  • have a thin time
  • have a thin time (of it)
  • have a time of it
  • have a tough time (of it)
  • have a whale of a (good) time
  • have a whale of a time
  • have an easy time of it
  • have money, time, etc. to play with
  • have no time for (someone or something)
  • have no time for somebody/something
  • have the time of (one's) life
  • have the time of life
  • have the time of your life
  • have time on (one's) hands
  • have time on (one's) side
  • have time on hands
  • have time on your hands
  • have time to kill
  • have to shove off
  • haven't seen you in a long time
  • having a wonderful time; wish you were here
  • having the time of my life
  • hell of a time
  • high old time
  • high time
  • hit the big time
  • how time flies
  • humor equals tragedy plus time
  • if I had (some monetary unit) for every (something), I'd be rich!
  • if I had (some monetary unit) for every time (something happened)
  • if you can't do the time, don't do the crime
  • in (an amount of time) flat
  • in (one's) day
  • in (one's) own good time
  • in (one's) own sweet time
  • in (one's) own sweet way
  • in (one's) own time
  • in (one's) spare time
  • in (one's) time
  • in due course
  • in due time
  • in good time
  • in half the time
  • in jig time
  • in less than no time
  • in next to no time
  • in no time
  • in no time (at all)
  • in no time flat
  • in nothing flat
  • in process of time
  • in real time
  • in somebody's day/time
  • in spare time
  • in the course of
  • in the fullness of time
  • in the interest of (saving) time
  • in the interest of saving time
  • in the nick of time
  • in the right place at the right time
  • in the space of (an amount of time)
  • in the wrong place at the wrong time
  • in time
  • in time (with someone or something)
  • in your own good time
  • in your own time
  • incapacitate (someone) for (a period of time)
  • incapacitate (someone) for (something) for (a period of time)
  • invest (one's) time in (something)
  • invest time in
  • it is high time
  • it is high time that
  • it's about time
  • it's crunch time
  • it's feeding time at the zoo
  • it's high time
  • it's high/about time...
  • it's only, just, etc. a matter/a question of time
  • it's payback time
  • it's time we should be going
  • jump back in time
  • just in time
  • keep (something) for another time/day/week/etc.
  • keep good time
  • keep in time (with someone or something)
  • keep time
  • keep until (some point in time)
  • keep until some time
  • kill (an amount of time)
  • kill time
  • kill time, a couple of hours, etc.
  • kill time, to
  • know the time of day
  • last for (some period of time)
  • lead time
  • leave (something) for another time/day/week/etc.
  • legend in own time
  • less than
  • life is short(, and time is swift)
  • live on borrowed time
  • living on borrowed time
  • long time
  • long time no see
  • long time, no hear
  • lose (some amount of) time
  • lose no time (in) (doing something)
  • lose some amount of time
  • lose time
  • lose/waste no time
  • lost in the mists of time
  • lost in the sands of time
  • make good time
  • make good, etc. time
  • make time
  • make time for (someone or something)
  • make time with (someone)
  • make up for lost time
  • make up the time
  • many 's the time
  • many a time
  • many and many's the time (that)
  • many's the time (that)
  • march in time (with someone or something)
  • march out of time
  • march out of time (with someone or something)
  • mark time
  • maybe another time
  • maybe some other time
  • money to burn
  • next, first, second, etc. time around/round
  • nick of time, (just) in the
  • no time for, have
  • no time like the present
  • no time like the present, there's
  • no time to lose
  • not able to call (one's) time (one's) own
  • not able to call time own
  • not before time
  • not give (one) the time of day
  • not give anyone the time of day
  • not give somebody the time of day
  • not give someone the time of day
  • not know the time of day
  • not ready for prime time
  • nut-cutting time
  • of all time
  • on (one's) own time
  • on borrowed time
  • on borrowed time, live
  • on one's hands
  • on one's own time
  • on own time
  • on the stroke of (some specific time)
  • on time
  • once more
  • once upon a time
  • one at a time
  • one by one
  • one day at a time
  • one more time
  • one step at a time
  • only a question of time
  • out of step
  • out of time
  • out of time (with someone or something)
  • over the course of
  • pass the time
  • pass the time of day
  • pass the time of day with (someone)
  • pass the time of day, to
  • pass the/your time
  • pass time
  • play for time
  • pocket of time
  • point in time
  • postpone until (some later date or time)
  • pressed for time
  • prime time
  • procrastination is the thief of time
  • pushed for time
  • put (one's) pants on one leg at a time (just like everybody else)
  • put (one's) trousers on one leg at a time (just like everybody else)
  • put (some time) in on (something)
  • put an amount of time in on
  • put in (some time) on (something)
  • puts (one's) trousers on one leg at a time (just like everybody else)
  • quality time
  • quarter past (a given hour in time)
  • quite some time
  • race against time
  • rack out
  • rack time
  • rare old time
  • reach back into (some point in time)
  • reach back to (some point in time)
  • ready for prime time
  • real time
  • ride two horses at the same time
  • right on time
  • right/wrong place at the right time, to be in the
  • rough time
  • run (something) by (one) one more time
  • run out of time
  • sack out
  • sack time
  • sands of time
  • save (something) for another time/day/week/etc.
  • save time
  • scarcely have time to breathe
  • screen time
  • serve (one's) time
  • serve time
  • serve your time
  • show (one) a good time
  • show a good time
  • show someone a good time
  • since the beginning of time
  • since time immemorial
  • since time out of mind
  • small time
  • small-time
  • spend (some amount of time) in (some place)
  • spend time in
  • stall for time
  • stand the test of time
  • stitch in time saves nine
  • stitch in time saves nine, a
  • stitch in time, a
  • street time
  • survive the test of time
  • take (one's) time
  • take it one day at a time
  • take it/things one day at a time
  • take off from work
  • take one's time
  • take the time
  • take things one day at a time
  • take time
  • take time by the forelock
  • take time out
  • take up space
  • take up time
  • take your time
  • tell the time
  • tell time
  • test of time
  • test of time, stood the/passed the
  • thank you for a (some kind of) time
  • thank you for a lovely time
  • thanks for a (some kind of) time
  • that/(one's) time of the month
  • the big time
  • the devil of a time
  • the devil's own time
  • the devil’s own time
  • the march of time
  • the sands of time
  • the time is ripe
  • the time of (one's) life
  • the time of day
  • the time of one's life
  • the time of your life
  • there's a first time for everything
  • there's a time and a place (for something)
  • there's no time like the present
  • there's no time to lose
  • third time lucky
  • third time pays for all
  • third time's a charm
  • third time's the charm
  • till next time
  • time
  • time after time
  • time and (time) again
  • time and a half
  • time and again
  • time and material
  • time and tide tarry for no man
  • time and tide wait for no one
  • time and time again
  • time bomb
  • time burglar
  • time flies
  • time flies when you're having fun
  • time for
  • time for a change
  • time hangs heavy
  • time hangs/lies heavy
  • time has come
  • time heals all wounds
  • time immemorial
  • time in
  • time is getting on
  • time is money
  • time is on (one's) side
  • time is on somebody's side
  • time is ripe
  • time is ripe, the
  • time is up
  • time of day
  • time of life
  • time of one's life
  • time off
  • time off for good behavior
  • time on (one's) hands
  • time on hands
  • time on one's hands
  • time on one's hands, (to have)
  • time on your hands
  • time out
  • time out of mind
  • time to catch breath
  • time to cruise
  • time to go
  • time to hit the road
  • time to kill
  • time to run
  • time warp
  • time was
  • time was (when)
  • time was...
  • time will tell
  • time's a-wastin'
  • time's up
  • to barely make it on time
  • try to catch you some other time
  • two-time
  • two-time loser
  • up time
  • walk and chew gum (at the same time)
  • waste no time (in) (doing something)
  • watch the time
  • whale of a time
  • what a time to be alive
  • when the time is ripe
  • while a period of time away
  • while away
  • while away the time, etc.
  • with for some time
  • with time to spare
  • withstand the test of time
  • would not give someone the time of day
  • wouldn't give someone the time of day
References in classic literature
`Now, it is very remarkable that this is so extensively overlooked,' continued the Time Traveller, with a slight accession of cheerfulness.
`Yes, I think I see it now,' he said after some time, brightening in a quite transitory manner.
We speak of what is white as large, because the surface over which the white extends is large; we speak of an action or a process as lengthy, because the time covered is long; these things cannot in their own right claim the quantitative epithet.
(2) However much we approximate the time of judgment to the time of the deed, we never get a conception of freedom in time.
So as time went on these well-known tales came to be told in many different ways, changing as the times changed.
Hence in all such cases, we should be unable to recognise the parent-form of any two or more species, even if we closely compared the structure of the parent with that of its modified descendants, unless at the same time we had a nearly perfect chain of the intermediate links.
The murderer was about to strike her on the head with the mutton-bone--a terrible weapon in the hands of a Larsan or Ballmeyer; but she fired in time, and the shot wounded the hand that held the weapon.
"And did your worship eat anything all that time, senor?" asked the cousin.
`If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, `you wouldn't talk about wasting IT.
He was the first of the writers of great Anna's time whom I knew, and he made me ready to understand, if he did not make me understand at once, the order of mind and life which he belonged to.
From the time of our parting till their death we kept up a correspondence with the older members of the family, and in later years we have kept in touch with those who were the younger members.
Just about this time, I got hold of a book entitled "The Columbian Orator." Every opportu- nity I got, I used to read this book.
She was also so spiteful that she gladly devoted all her time to carrying out all the mean or ill-natured tricks of the whole body of fairies.
The patient had obtained a `card' from the hospital some time before; and when her time came it was taken to the porter by a messenger, generally a little girl, who was then sent across the road to the house in which Philip lodged.
I stood still for some time. The sight of her had made me very happy.