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...Baby One More Time ( Britney Spears album and song )
...of the
clock
A Brief History Of Time ( Stephen Hawking book )
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Future: Twists And Turns, And Lessons Learned ( Michael J. Fox book )
A bad quarter of an
hour
A double
date
A good time was had by all
A legend in his own
lifetime
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A moment on the lips, a
lifetime
on the hips
A once in a
lifetime
opportunity
A stitch in time saves nine
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A week is a long time in politics
About time too
Accuracy to seconds a month ( Pulsar Watches advertising slogan )
Act your
age
Address the ball ( golfing
term
denoting readiness to play )
Age
before beauty
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Age
bracket
Age
cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety
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Age
of consent
Age
of discretion
Age
of majority
Age
old
Age
to
age
Ahead of his time
Alexander's
Ragtime
Band ( Irving Berlin song )
All in a good time
All
present
and correct
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All the news that's fit to print ( New York
Times
advertising slogan )
All the time in the world
All time low
All
year
round
Any time, any place, any where ( Martini advertising slogan )
Any time, anywhere, acid indigestion can catch you out ( Alka Selzer advertising slogan )
Anytime soon
Architecture is music frozen in time ( Friedrich von Schelling quotation )
Around the
clock
Ars longa, vita brevis
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As regular as clockwork
As time goes by
At arms'
length
At
length
At sixty miles an
hour
the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric
clock
( Rolls Royce advertising slogan )
At the eleventh
hour
At the last
minute
At this moment in time
At this point in time
At
times
like this
Awkward
age
Back To The
Future
Bad time
Banner
year
Bath time
Beat the
clock
Bedroom tax ( slang
term
for UK's removal of Spare Room Subsidy )
Been around the block a few
times
Behind the
times
Better luck next time
Between the wars ( The
period
between WWI and WWII )
Bide your time
Big time
Bits per
second
Blast from the
past
Blind
date
Bon viveur
Bring up to
date
Build for the
future
Bunny suit ( Canadian military slang
term
for a cbrn ( chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear ) )
Buy some time
Buy time
Calendar
year
( twelve months beginning from the first of January )
Call time on
Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! ( line from the movie 25th
Hour
)
Chance of a
lifetime
Cheap
date
Christmas comes but once a
year
Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see ( 3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan )
Chucking out time
Clean your
clock
Clear and
present
danger
Clock
on
Clock
watching
Code monkey ( slang
term
for a computer programmer )
Come of
age
Come up and see me
sometime
( A catchphrase from Mae West )
Cometh the hour, cometh the man
Comic
timing
( The
rhythm
and
tempo
of delivery required for comic effect )
Cowards may die many
times
before their death
Crunch time
Date
rape
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Date
with destiny
Daylight saving time ( the adjustment of clocks to provide longer evening daylight )
Dead on time
Desmond Tutu ( Cockney rhyming slang for
Second
class degree ( 2,2 ) )
Dickens of a time
Dinner
date
Do hard time ( Spend time in a high security prison )
Dog's
age
Don't close your eyes for a
minute
Don't forget the TV
Times
( TV
Times
advertising slogan )
Double time
End of an
era
Equal pay, equal time ( Bulova Watches advertising slogan )
Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings ( line from It's A Wonderful Life )
Every time a good time ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
Face that could stop a
clock
Face time
Fall on hard
times
Fascinatin'
Rhythm
( George Gershwin song )
Feel your
age
First footing ( making a round of visits at New
Year
)
First
past
the post
First time caller
For old times' sake
For the foreseeable
future
For the time being
Forever is a long time
Free
period
From the beginning of time
From time immemorial
From time to time
Future
proof
Future
shock
Game time
Geological time
Get a
shift
on
Get to
second
base
Gift of time
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a
lifetime
Go down for the third time
Golden Sombrero ( A baseball expression denoting a player who strikes out four
times
in a game )
Golden
age
Good Time, Great Taste, That's Why This is My Place ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
Good old
times
Good time charlie
Good time girl
Good
timing
Got no time for
Grace
period
Graveyard
shift
Half a
second
Hancock's Half
Hour
( BBC comedy radio and television series )
Hang on a
minute
Hang time
Happy New
Year
Happy
hour
Hard
times
Have a
second
string to your bow have
Have you ever had a bad time in Levi's? ( Levi's Jeans advertising slogan )
Have you ever wished you were better informed? ( The
Times
advertising slogan )
Have your
period
Hello big boy, would you like a nice time?
Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the
clock
( line from nursery rhyme )
High old time
High season ( the most popular time to visit a resort or attraction - when prices are highest )
High time
Hit the bricks ( a cursory slang
term
telling someone to leave )
Hold on a
minute
Holiday of a
lifetime
Honey bunny ( a mawkish
term
of affection )
Honeymoon
period
I Got
Rhythm
( George Gershwin song )
I
Second
That Emotion ( Smokey Robinson song )
I never knew it had so much in it ( TV
Times
advertising slogan )
I wouldn't put it
past
him
Idea whose time has come
If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand
times
If it's on, it's in ( Radio
Times
advertising slogan )
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
If you can't explain it to a six
year
old, you don't understand it yourself ( Albert Einstein quotation )
If you've got the time, we've got the beer ( Miller Beer advertising slogan )
In a coon's
age
In good time
In less than no time
In no time flat
In real time
In record time
In the fullness of time
In the meantime
In the nick of time
In the right place at the right time
In this day and
age
In your own time
Is this a great time or what? ( MCI Communications advertising slogan )
It Was A Very Good
Year
( Frank Sinatra song )
It doesn't take a
minute
to bag it and bin it ( UK public advertisement advertising slogan )
It was the best of times: it was the worst of
times
( the opening line of A Tale Of Two Cities )
It's Miller time! ( Miller High Life advertising slogan )
It's a Good Time for the Great Taste of mcdonald's ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
It's about time
It's high time
It's payback time
It's time for U ( UPN advertising slogan )
It's time to call it a day
It's time to fly ( United Airlines advertising slogan )
Just a question of time
Just in time
Just slightly ahead of our time ( Panasonic advertising slogan )
Keep time with
Kill time
Kill time until time kills you
Knock Three
Times
( Tony Orlando and Dawn song )
La Belle Epoque ( the golden
age
or beautiful
era
preceding the First World War )
Lady of a certain
age
Lapse of time
Last
minute
Last time of asking
Late
hour
Laugh a
minute
Lean
times
Let the good
times
roll
Living on borrowed time
Local time
Long time no see
Lose track of time
Love In The Time Of Cholera
Make a
date
Make good time
Make up for lost time
Man
date
Man of the
hour
March of time
Mark time
Matter of time
May you live in interesting
times
Mental
age
Miller Time ( Nickname of Reggie Miller )
Mind the time
Modern
Times
( Charlie Chaplin movie )
Move with the
times
My finest
hour
New York
minute
New
age
travellers
New year's resolution
Night
shift
No F.T. no comment ( Financial
Times
Newspaper advertising slogan )
No rush
No, no, a thousand
times
no
Now is the
hour
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
Old before your time
On
second
thoughts
On the dot
On the
hour
Once Upon A Time In America ( Robert De Niro movie )
Once and
future
king
Once in a
lifetime
Once upon a time
One leg at a time ( Dockers advertising slogan )
One
minute
to midnight
One more time
One
second
One step at a time
One year's seeds make seven
year
weeds
Only a matter of time
Only time will tell
Out Of Time ( Rolling Stones song )
Out of
date
Paradigm
shift
Parsley seed goes nine
times
to the devil
Party time
Pass the time of day
Past
caring
Past
it
Past
its sell-by
date
Peace in our time
Pearls
past
price
Platinum Sombrero ( A baseball expression denoting striking out five
times
in a game )
Play for time
Play
second
fiddle
Pommy bashing ( Australian slang
term
for physical or verbal attacks on the English )
Present
company excepted
Prime time
Procrastination is the thief of time
Put the
clock
back
Quality time
Race against the
clock
Race against time
Right off the bat ( A baseball expression meaning immediately without
delay
)
Rock Around The
Clock
( Bill Haley song )
Rubber johnny ( a British slang
term
for a condom )
Sack time
Same time tomorrow? ( Diet Pepsi advertising slogan )
Say kids, what time is it? ( A catchphrase from Howdy Doody Show )
Screen time
Second
banana
Second
best
Second
bite of the cherry
Second
childhood
Second
class
Second
degree burns
Second
generation
Second
nature
Second
sight
Second
slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
Second
storey man
Second
thoughts
Second
thoughts are best
Second
to none
Second
wind
See what the
future
has in store (
Future
Shop advertising slogan )
Serve your time
Seven
year
itch
Shack rat ( Canadian military slang
term
for a promiscuous female who visits military barracks to sleep with soldiers )
Shaping the
future
Shift
gears
Shift
into high gear
Shift
your arse
Sign of the
times
Since Hector was a pup
Since time immemorial
So many books, so little time ( Frank Zappa quotation )
Some other time
Sparrow fart ( jokey
term
for the early morning )
Spend more time with my family
Squeaky bum time
Stop the clock, I've found a clue
Stupid-o'-clock ( US army slang
term
that refers to any time very early in the morning )
Suck face ( slang
term
for kissing )
Summer time ( the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time )
Summertime, and the living is easy
Sunday isn't Sunday without the Sunday
Times
( Sunday
Times
advertising slogan )
Take one day at a time
Take time out
Tempus fugit
That's the
second
biggest ... I've ever seen! ( A catchphrase from Get Smart )
The Adventure of the
Second
Stain ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The
Age
Of Reason ( Jean Paul Sartre book )
The
Age
of Reason
The Best
Second
Banana in the Business ( Nickname of Art Carney )
The Chrysanthemum Throne ( the traditional
term
for the reign of the Emperor of Japan )
The
Future
( Nickname of Carmelo Anthony )
The Human Rain
Delay
( Nickname of Mike Hargrove )
The Last Time ( Rolling Stones song )
The Last Time I Saw Paris ( Elizabeth Taylor movie )
The Life And
Times
Of Judge Roy Bean ( Paul Newman movie )
The Space
Age
The Sunday
Times
is the Sunday papers ( Sunday
Times
advertising slogan )
The Thunderer ( Nickname of The
Times
Newspaper )
The Time ( Dirty Bit ) ( The Black Eyed Peas song )
The
Times
They Are A-Changin' ( Bob Dylan song )
The
age
of miracles is
past
The biological
clock
is ticking
The bull in the bowler hat ( jokey
term
for artificial insemination )
The
clock
is ticking
The darkest
hour
is just before the dawn
The dim distant
past
The first time is never the best ( Campari advertising slogan )
The
future
is now
The
future
isn't what it used to be
The
future
takes VISA ( VISA advertising slogan )
The future's bright, the future's Orange ( Orange mobile phones advertising slogan )
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades ( song by Timbuk 3 )
The land that time forgot
The
length
and breadth of the land
The
past
is a foreign country: they do things differently there ( the opening line of The Go-Between )
The right place at the wrong time
The sands of time
The stroke of midnight
The third
age
The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things
The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll )
The
times
they are a changing
The witching
hour
The
year
dot
There will be tears before bedtime
There's a time and a place for everything
There's no time like the
present
There's one born every
minute
Thin time of it
Third time lucky
Third
time's
a charm
This is the
age
of the train ( British Rail advertising slogan )
This time it's personal ( Jaws The Revenge advertising tagline )
This time next
year
we will be millionaires ( A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses )
Through the ages
Till the end of time
Time Out Of Mind ( Bob Dylan song )
Time after time
Time and again
Time and tide wait for no man
Time and time again
Time flies
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana ( Groucho Marx line )
Time flies when you are having fun