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    Learn English > English lessons and exercises > English test #117105: Vocabulary: time flies
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    Vocabulary: time flies


     

    TIME ... The time you "find", the one you "waste", the one you "save"; the TIME you "have", you "don't have" or don't have enough; the TIME you "kill", or that you "spend", the one you address: "Time, Stop flying away!"    It can heal too ...

    TIME is part of everybody's life, of course, and of all our conservations. It's the absolute and unrivalled Master, a tyrant, it you submit to it; when you think you're "wasting" it, you can't catch up with it... It's limited, and that's why it's precious... even if you refuse that "Time is money" ... everybody's "duty" and "pleasure" is to take advantage of it, simply, to ENJOY it! 



                                                               

      HELEN KELLER (1), PASTEUR (2), MICHAELANGELO (3), MOTHER TERESA (4), LEONARDO DA VINCI (5), THOMAS JEFFERSON (6), and ALBERT EINSTEIN (7)." 

    (1) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller     (2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Louis_Pasteur  

    (3) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Titan:_Story_of_Michelangelo   (4)  https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A8re_Teresa

    (5) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci   (6)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson   

    (7) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

     

     I) You certainly use them very often, almost everyday!                                                                            

                                
                       To spend time                      To save time                    To waste time
                                 

                         All in good time       

                          Ahead of time

                  Behind the times         

     

    II) Other very usual expressions dealing with  "TIME".

     To lose track of time To find the time 
     From time to time  Some time off
     To get with the times  Only time will tell... 
     For the time being All the time in the world   
     In the nick of time... time to kill... 
     To two-time to give a hard time

     

    III) A few strange expressions: 

                  To set date and time       

             To live on borrowed time

                    To bide * one's time          

      * to bide = [ 'baid]

     

                                                          

                                                         Time is of the Essence! (= Let's hurry!)

     

    IV) and the most usual ones...

                

                    To have a good time        

            I had the time of my life!

                   To have a bad time    

                                    
                            Out of time       Pressed for time= in a hurry

                   The time is ripe             

                      

                    To make time        

                       Time lost       

                        To keep time               

           

                One day at a time        

            To stand the test of time  

               Once upon a time...                 

     

    V) A few idioms or sayings...

    - Time heals all wounds // Time is the great healer! It helps you "forget" and "bear"...

    - Time is money! = Time is precious! 

    - To make up for lost time. (which is very difficult, often impossible!)

    - Time flies! = Time passes...

     

     

                                                                                                

     

     

    There you are...  You may now speak about time... and pass the test with flying colours!     I give you THE FORCE!  

     



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