Time Phrases

Phrases

• ...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
• A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips
• A once in a lifetime opportunity
• A stitch in time saves nine
• 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
• Age bracket
• Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Related

• ...Baby One More Time (Britney Spears album and song)
• A Brief History Of Time (Stephen Hawking book)
• A good time was had by all
• A stitch in time saves nine
• A week is a long time in politics
• About time too
• Ahead of his time
• All in a good time
• All the time in the world
• All time low
• Any time, any place, any where (Martini advertising slogan)
• Any time, anywhere, acid indigestion can catch you out (Alka Selzer advertising slogan)
• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• As time goes by
• At this moment in time
• At this point in time
• Bad time
• Bath time
• Better luck next time
• Bide your time
• Big time
• Buy some time
• Buy time
• Call time on
• Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see (3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan)
• Chucking out time
• Crunch time
• Daylight saving time (the adjustment of clocks to provide longer evening daylight)
• Dead on time
• Dickens of a time
• Do hard time (Spend time in a high security prison)
• Double time
• 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 time
• First time caller
• For the time being
• Forever is a long time
• From the beginning of time
• From time immemorial
• From time to time
• Game time
• Geological time
• Gift of time
• Go down for the third time
• Good Time, Great Taste, That's Why This is My Place (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Good time charlie
• Good time girl
• Got no time for
• Hang time
• Have you ever had a bad time in Levi's? (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
• Hello big boy, would you like a nice time?
• High old time
• High season (the most popular time to visit a resort or attraction - when prices are highest)
• High time
• Idea whose time has come
• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• If you've got the time, we've got the beer (Miller Beer advertising slogan)
• 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 nick of time
• In the right place at the right time
• In your own time
• Is this a great time or what? (MCI Communications advertising slogan)
• 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
• Lapse of time
• Last time of asking
• Living on borrowed time
• Local time
• Long time no see
• Lose track of time
• Love In The Time Of Cholera
• Make good time
• Make up for lost time
• March of time
• Mark time
• Matter of time
• Miller Time (Nickname of Reggie Miller)
• Mind the time
• Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
• Old before your time
• Once Upon A Time In America (Robert De Niro movie)
• Once upon a time
• One leg at a time (Dockers advertising slogan)
• One more time
• One step at a time
• Only a matter of time
• Only time will tell
• Out Of Time (Rolling Stones song)
• Party time
• Pass the time of day
• Peace in our time
• Play for time
• Prime time
• Procrastination is the thief of time
• Quality time
• Race against time
• Sack time
• Same time tomorrow? (Diet Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Say kids, what time is it? (A catchphrase from Howdy Doody Show)
• Screen time
• Serve your time
• Since time immemorial
• So many books, so little time (Frank Zappa quotation)
• Some other time
• Spend more time with my family
• Squeaky bum time
• Summer time (the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time)
• Take one day at a time
• Take time out
• The Last Time (Rolling Stones song)
• The Last Time I Saw Paris (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• The Time (Dirty Bit) (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• The first time is never the best (Campari advertising slogan)
• The land that time forgot
• The right place at the wrong time
• The sands of time
• 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)
• There's a time and a place for everything
• There's no time like the present
• Thin time of it
• Third time lucky
• Third time's a charm
• 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)
• 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