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take one's sweet time en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (colloquial) To take a very long time; to be too slow or leisurely in getting something done.
    • You took your sweet time And I waited by without complaint 'Til all the pipe dreams made me insane 2008, “In the New Year”, performed by The Walkmen:
    • It had been almost a year since Brother Steve had left, and they'd been stuck with one substitute after another while the bishop took his sweet time finding a permanent replacement. Lindsay just hoped the wait would be worth it. 2012, Patsy Caldwell, Amy Lyles Wilson, You Be Sweet: Sharing Your Heart One Down-Home Dessert at a Time:
  2. (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial) To waste one's own time.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
takes one's sweet time Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
took one's sweet time Tense=Past lexicographic
taken one's sweet time Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
taking one's sweet time Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

take one's sweet little time