Meaning of high time | Babel Free

Definitions

1. hour (a time period of sixty minutes)
2. A point in time at which something is considered to be utterly due or even overdue to occur; well past time.
   idiomatic, uncountable
3. time (the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device)
4. A very enjoyable or exciting experience or period of time.
   countable, idiomatic
5. high time (usually with "ya")
6. hour, period (of class)
7. appointment (e.g. with the doctor)

Equivalents

Examples

“"But it is high time for me to have done with the argument, as it is to be judged of according to scripture evidence."”

“"I will await no longer," said Lindesay; "it is high time the business were done."”

“I thought it was high time, now or never, before the light was put out, to break the spell in which I had so long been bound.”

“"But I haven't ridden for years." "Then it's high time you began again."”

“It is high time to cease sensationalism and war mongering, pause and think twice about where we are heading.”

“[T]here's going to be a high time in the Blue City tonight. We'll have music and dancing and eating.”

“For Alice had lived, from early in her girlhood, a life of flowers, and song, and wine, and dance. . . . And her tight tongue had served her well . . . . [N]one ever heard her gossip of the times of Kalakaua's boathouse, nor of the high times of officers of visiting warships.”

“[T]he film intelligently deploys familiar thriller elements: chases; shoot-outs; high-level duplicity; terse, sassy dialogue; and a cast having a high time playing preening villains and wily good guys.”

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