| 词汇 | time lies heavy |
| 释义 | Idiom time lies heavytime hangs/lies heavy (on someone's hands) if time hangs heavy, it seems to pass slowly because you do not have enough to do.Time hangs heavy on your hands in prison. time hangs heavyTime moves slowly. Time hangs heavy on all of us in those dull corporate meetings. time hangs heavyAlso, time hangs heavy on one's hands. Time passes slowly, as in She adjusted quite well to the nursing home, except that she says time hangs heavy on her hands . This metaphoric term, first recorded in the late 1760s, likens the passage of time to a burdensome weight. time hangs/lies ˈheavy (on your ˈhands)time seems to pass very slowly because you are bored or have nothing to do: In prison, time hangs heavy. |
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