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time to kill

Noun

Meaning

time to kill (uncountable)

A period during which one has no responsibilities to fulfill, often while waiting for some event or outcome, and therefore must find some activity to partake in to prevent boredom.

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Last dance with Mary Jane, one more time to kill the pain. I feel summer creepin' in and I'm tired of this town again. Tom Petty

That's all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out-so far out you can't follow them all the way to the end. Haruki Murakami

He took over the planet and is sending his minions back in time to kill Roger Wilco. Source: Internet

In this altered universe storyline, Charles Xavier’s crazed yet powerful son, Legion, went back in time to kill Magneto, figuring that he’d put a stop to the Magneto/Professor X feud before it ever started. Source: Internet

It's our layover on the way to Dublin, which means we have some time to kill. Source: Internet

Obama, remember, had been inaugurated on January 20, so his "radicalism" hadn't had much time to kill anything. Source: Internet

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