Idiom
burn daylight
Meaning
To waste time.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Stop burning daylight and start your homework now.”
“We have a long drive ahead of us, so let's not burn daylight sitting in this parking lot.”
“The manager urged his team to finish the report immediately, insisting that they could not afford to burn daylight while the deadline approached.”
Examples
simple
“Stop burning daylight and start your homework now.”
contextual
“We have a long drive ahead of us, so let's not burn daylight sitting in this parking lot.”
complex
“The manager urged his team to finish the report immediately, insisting that they could not afford to burn daylight while the deadline approached.”
Origin
Originally a reference to burning candles during the day.
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