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time is up

  1. The period of time allowed for something is ended, as in Turn in your papers, students; time is up. This idiom uses up in the sense of “completed” or “expired,” a usage dating from about 1400.



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"If you're claiming benefits you're not entitled to, your time is up."

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"This is our everything - to him it's a plaything. We have to show him that his time is up, that we don't want or need him any more, and that he needs to leave."

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Alenoosh, 63, who said she was born in Iran to Armenian parents but grew up in Paris, said she felt that "time is up for the regime".

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Vance said the U.S. wants foreign visitors “to come, we want them to celebrate, we want them to watch the games. But when the time is up, we want them to go home, otherwise they will have to talk to Secretary Noem.”

The signing of midfielder Tijjani Reijnders, and City being linked with playmaker Rayan Cherki, suggest Grealish's time is up.

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