time to kill

time to kill

Spare time which one must somehow occupy. The word kill here implies wasting or using time frivolously, and indeed this is the implication in Vanbrugh and Cibber’s play The Provok’d Husband (1728): “What think you, if we three sat soberly down to kill an hour at ombre [a card game]?” Ugo Betti (The Fugitive, 1953) took a more sober and critical view: “Killing time is the chief end of our society.”
See also: kill, time
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • any time means no time
  • (it's) time to push along
  • against time
  • against the clock
  • any time
  • (it's) time to run
  • anytime
  • about time
  • (it's) (a)bout time
  • at one time
References in classic literature
Following it up, he entered the defile, where he remained encamped for two days to allow the hunters time to kill and dry a supply of buffalo beef.
Adventures of Captain Bonneville USA in the Rocky Mountains and
"You naughty child!" said the mother: and now she had not time to kill Gerda.
Andersens Fairy Tales
Give way, men, whispered Starbuck, drawing still further aft the sheet of his sail; there is time to kill a fish yet before the squall comes.
Moby Dick I LXVII
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More ideas will likely be posted on the thread for as long as programmers have time to kill.
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Skynet sends a shape-shifting T-1000 Terminator (Robert Patrick) back in time to kill John and end the human resistance.
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It's time to kill the grading curve, David Laude of the University of Texas at Austin argues.
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The incident led at the time to kill two people and wounding nine others.
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