Idiom
burn time
Meaning
To waste time unnecessarily.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“We burn time playing games while waiting for the bus.”
“Since the meeting was delayed by an hour, we had to burn time in the lobby reading old magazines.”
“Rather than focusing on the urgent deadline, the team continued to burn time discussing trivial matters that had no impact on the final project.”
Examples
simple
“We burn time playing games while waiting for the bus.”
contextual
“Since the meeting was delayed by an hour, we had to burn time in the lobby reading old magazines.”
complex
“Rather than focusing on the urgent deadline, the team continued to burn time discussing trivial matters that had no impact on the final project.”
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