time to kill
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Near it is an incomplete set of animal-bone dominoes, carved from kitchen waste by Napoleonic prisoners of war with time to kill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Meh: If I was on a flight, I’d only re-watch if I had a lot of time to kill, like maybe on a 15-hour trip to Australia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
Cold snaps are getting shorter, which often doesn't leave enough time to kill off diseases.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2023
With some time to kill before an event that night, he headed to a dealership just west of the airport.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2023
Since the disease may take a very long time to kill its victim, the victim remains alive as a reservoir of microbes to infect other members of the tribelet.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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