Idiom
time thief
Meaning
Something or someone that consumes an inordinate amount of time, especially without achieving anything productive.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Social media is a huge time thief for me.”
“I try to avoid long, unnecessary meetings because they are a major time thief during my busy workday.”
“The constant stream of minor administrative requests proved to be a persistent time thief, preventing the researcher from focusing on her primary project.”
Examples
simple
“Social media is a huge time thief for me.”
contextual
“I try to avoid long, unnecessary meetings because they are a major time thief during my busy workday.”
complex
“The constant stream of minor administrative requests proved to be a persistent time thief, preventing the researcher from focusing on her primary project.”
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