time out

Word Origin & History

also time out, 1896 in sports, 1939 in other occupations; from 1980 as the name of a strategy in child discipline; from time + out.

Time out of mind, such malleability has been the cross of the Magdalenes.

Well, in our town on the river, the women's heads are half the time out of the windows.

FROM that time out, we was with him 'most all the time, and one or t'other of us slept in his upper berth.

Clemens appeared to be at this time out of tune with fiction.

Don't wait for Sue; Sue has nothing to do with you from this time out.

Deforrest Young, too, had spent most of the time out of Ithaca.

So she can go home and mind her business from this time out.

From that time out not a day passed but one or more of the crew were struck or kicked.

Edna spends most of her time out in the open, and nothing feazes her.

It is no kindness to a child to permit him to spend all his time out of school in play.

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