take one's time

1. Act slowly or at one's leisure, as in You can take your time altering that dress; I don't need it right away. [Late 1700s]

Example Sentences

One could take one’s time browsing, and in the process encounter neighbors doing the same.

From Washington Post

Around the neck in particular, the direction of the hair is not always obvious, so it's important to take one's time.

From BBC

The trick is to take one's time and roll it out slowly, Russian fashion, at full, length: "Josef Vis-sur-ee-�-nun-vich Zoogoash-vee-lee."

From Time Magazine Archive

If he will get into a tight place, one may surely take one's time at helping him out: and really it does require some little time to investigate the class of securities he brings, and which are astonishingly varied.

From Project Gutenberg

And it's well to take one's time nowadays.

From Project Gutenberg

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