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Jewish Standard Time en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (humorous, uncountable) later than the agreed-upon time
    • I don't believe in Jewish Standard Time. That's complete bullshit and part of an agenda to advance the interests of inconsiderate assholes who can't keep time. 2015, Tasha Kaminsky, “Your Judaism”, in Jewish Noir: Contemporary Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds:
    • It is my conviction that the notion of Jewish Standard Time is essentially a canard. It is not that Jewish events universally start when they are announced. They don't. The point is, that neither do anyone else's. Well, almost anyone: The Germanic descendants of the Anglos and the Saxons and occasional eccentrics among widely scattered ethnic groups do, and that tends to intimidate the rest of us. 1993, Richard J. Israel, The Kosher Pig: And Other Curiosities of Modern Jewish Life:
    • The kid was on time, which would have been fine except that the students were on Jewish Standard Time. 2014, Faye Kellerman, chapter 2, in Murder 101: A Decker/Lazarus Novel: