Idiom
it's about time
Meaning
Used to express impatience at the eventual occurrence of something that the speaker or writer has deemed to be long overdue.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“It's about time you called me back.”
“After three hours of waiting, the bus finally arrived, and everyone muttered that it was about time.”
“The government passed the long-promised reform, and critics in the press declared that it was about time, noting the legislation had languished in committee for nearly a decade.”
Examples
simple
“It's about time you called me back.”
contextual
“After three hours of waiting, the bus finally arrived, and everyone muttered that it was about time.”
complex
“The government passed the long-promised reform, and critics in the press declared that it was about time, noting the legislation had languished in committee for nearly a decade.”
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