Lesson
Idioms | Meaning | Example |
spend time | to use time in certain way | How do you spend time during vacation-working or relaxing? |
Save time | to use less time, or do something quickly so you have more time to do something else. | If we take the bus to school, it’ll take about an hour. Let’s take a taxi instead. It’ll only take twenty minutes and we ‘ll save time. |
Kill time | To do something because we have too much time | The movie does’nt start for another hour. We can kill time until then by having coffee across the street. |
Make time | To schedule a specific amount of time to do something | Mary tries to make time every day to read something in English. |
Wast time | To use time poorly | Professor Bush wants to talk to me after class. He thinks I’m wasting time training for a professional football team instead of applying to college. |