high time
Example Sentences
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“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
"It is high time that health becomes an issue for formal negotiations, and we hope to see this at COP31" next year, he said.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
