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time hangs heavy
Idioms and Phrases
Also, time hangs heavy on one's hands . Time passes slowly, as in She adjusted quite well to the nursing home, except that she says time hangs heavy on her hands . This metaphoric term, first recorded in the late 1760s, likens the passage of time to a burdensome weight.Example Sentences
Play is the resource of none but men whose time hangs heavy on their hands.
An occasional caller may come to pay his or her visit; but otherwise the time hangs heavy on her hands.
Now Time hangs heavy on his hands; yet for most things he cannot find Time!
Because time hangs heavy on my hands, and the chess-board has ceased to have any attraction.
And time hangs heavy on a fellow's hands, after he has lost her society.
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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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