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For the sake of variety or novelty, as in Let's take a taxi for a change , or So you're on time for a change . This phrase is sometimes used in a straightforward way, as in the first example, or to express the same sentiment as about time , that is, “it's high time something different happened,” as in the second example. [First half of 1900s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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