take one's time

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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]

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take one's time

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

From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.

V. have leisure &c. n.; take one's time, take one's leisure, take one's ease; repose &c.

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