It means its time to give up ..
The phrase "bated breath" meaning holding or restricting one's breath, was used in Shakespeare, in the Merchant of Venice, in 1596, but was also used in other ways at that time. The word bate meaning to reduce or lessen is now archaic and its use is now only in this phrase and in its derivative form "to abate" meaning to reduce or lessen.
No. This object-preposition-object idiom practically always follows the preposition "from" where the first time is the object of "from" and the whole 4-word group is an adverbial meaning "occasionally."
It is a calque (see the wikipedia definition of that) of some Chinese phrase with the same meaning.
Turn in "go to bed" is attested from 1695, originally nautical.
Yes, that is one meaning of the word "exact" (precise, accurate). If you are using the phrase, however, it may use the adverb : "at the exact time" but "at exactly the same time".
The meaning is to repeat over and over.
The meaning of the phrase by and by is over time or eventually. It means something will take place sometime on the future but not at a specified time.
the meaning of the phrase "The time has come." is a reference to the death of a person or animal. It means that the time has come for them to leave their life.
The phrase 'time of day' is usually used as an example, 'I would not give her the time of day'. This means that she would not be given any time at all.
As long as you love me is a phrase commonly used. It is a phrase which means till the time you love me.
you forget everythngh as time passes meaning
"Rome wasn't built in a day" is an example of a hackneyed phrase, meaning that something takes time and effort to achieve.
A.M. is short for the Latin phrase ante meridiem meaning "before noon".P.M. is post meridiem meaning "after noon".
Prime time as a phrase means the peak time or best time to do something. It has also come to mean the best time for advertisers to buy time on television because it is when most people are watching and will see their adverts.
"later on" "till then" "see you on the flipside"
The act of synchronizing; concurrence of events in respect to time.
One Day at a Time - 1975 Bring in the Clowns 9-17 was released on: USA: 4 April 1984