high time
Example Sentences
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We’d had the stove going for two weeks now, so it was high time to clean out the stovepipe.
From Literature
“He got the better woman too, while I wasted time, blinded by beauty! But never mind all that; the point is, young man, if you can’t swim, it’s high time you learned!”
From Literature
“It is high time . . . that we take our ignorance more seriously,” Hayek memorably observed.
It’s the weekend before Halloween, high time for the freaks to descend.
From Los Angeles Times
"It is high time for Europe to step up its game. To redouble its efforts to reduce our dependencies on China," Sejourne told EU lawmakers.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
