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It's About Time

Meaning

"It's about time" expresses impatience or relief when something overdue finally happens. It can also suggest that now is the right moment to start a long-delayed action.

Examples

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime. Rudy Giuliani

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age. Groucho Marx

I am very underleveraged. I have a great company. I have a tremendous income. And the reason I say that is not in a braggadocios way. It's because it's about time that this country had somebody running it that has an idea about money. Donald Trump

I'm lost. And it's my own fault. It's about time I figured out that I can't ask people to keep me found. Anne Sexton

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family. Alan Keyes

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention. Jane Fonda

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