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it's about time!
- (idiomatic, sarcastic) Used to express impatience at the eventual occurrence of something that the speaker or writer has deemed to be long overdue.
So Johnny has finally learned the alphabet - it's about time too, he's 6!
expression of impatience
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 是時候／是时候 (shì shíhou)
- Dutch: het werd tijd, dat werd tijd, eindelijk (nl)
- Esperanto: jam temp' está
- Finnish: on korkea aika, lopultakin, vihdoinkin, jo oli aikakin
- French: c’est pas trop tôt (fr), ce n’est pas trop tôt (fr), bon débarras (fr), j’ai failli attendre (fr), il était temps (fr)
- German: Das wird auch langsam Zeit! (idiom)
- Icelandic: mikið var!, það var mikið!, það er mál til komið!, mál til komið!
- Italian: era ora!
- Latvian: beidzot!, sen jau bija laiks!
- Portuguese: já era hora, já era tempo
- Russian: наконец-то! (nakon'éc-to)
- Slovak: no konečne!, je na čase!
- Spanish: ya va siendo hora
- Swedish: det är/var på tiden (sv)
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