This is the right moment for something, as in The time is ripe for a revival of that play. Shakespeare used this term (and may have originated it) in 1 Henry IV (1:3): "Letters shall direct your course when time is ripe."
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- ripe (Idiom)
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- Rx for Martian: My Favorite Martian (TV Episode) (1964 Comedy TV Episode)
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- The Medico of Painted Springs (1941 Western Film)
- James Ellison (Actor, Western/Action)
- Riders of the West (1942 Western Film)
- The Last Bandit (1949 Western Film)
- Vanity Dies Hard (1994 TV Series)
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