a quarter of an hour

Synonyms

15 minutes quarter-hour

Examples

...When he was on the eve of departure for one of his great expeditions the coachmaker said to him, "The carriage shall be at the door punctually at six o clock"; "A quarter before," said Nelson. "I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time and it has made a man of me." Horatio Nelson

The modern young man,' said Aunt Dahlia, 'is a congenital idiot and wants a nurse to lead him by the hand and some strong attendant to kick him regularly at intervals of a quarter of an hour. P. G. Wodehouse

This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain. Cyrano de Bergerac

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time. Horatio Nelson

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A Quarter of an hour is worth more than a thousand gold coins. Chinese Proverb

Words in the phrase

a quarter of an hour

Close letter words and terms

a quarter a quarter hour a quarter of a century a quarter of an hr a quarter of sixty a queen