Rate this phrase:5.0 / 1 vote

take one's time

To take more time to do something than is considered acceptable.
401 Views
“

You took your time getting here!.

Collection   Edit    

Submitted on September 01, 2009

Additional definitions for 'take one's time':

take one's timeTo go about something slowly and carefully.
See them all »

Translation

Find a translation for the take one's time phrase in other languages:

не торопиться

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Nearby phrases

Some more phrases from our dictionary similar to take one's time

take overtake on watertake out the trashtake out an oniontake one's lumpstake one's tongue out of someone's asstake ontake out of contexttake one's eye off the balltake overtake one's picktake out the trashtake overtake one's hat off to

How to pronounce this phrase?

Discuss this take one's time phrase with the community:

0 Comments

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this take one's time definition to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "take one's time." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 23 Nov. 2024. <https://www.phrases.com/phrase/take-ones-time_7293>.

    Powered by CITE.ME Cite.Me

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest human-edited phrases collection on the web!

    Quiz

    Are you a phrases master?

    »
    A football game starts with a kick _______.
    A up
    B out
    C off
    D on

    Browse Phrases.com

    #ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ