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meter is running, the

Idioms

Costs or other consequences are accumulating, as in We'd better come to a decision soon, for the meter is running. This metaphoric expression alludes to the fare mounting up on a taxi meter. [Late 1900s]

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Lambrecht christened the discomfort that customers feel when the meter is running the “taxi-meter effect.”

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