to kill time
- Fuente de la expresión
- German/English Dictionary of Idioms
- Estructura completa
- sb kills time
- Variantes
- to while/dawdle wawy one's time / to sit around scratching oneself
- Contexto
- I felt dreadfully. But there was no help for it, so up stairs I went to my little room in the third floor, undressed myself as slowly as possible so as to kill time, and with a bitter sigh got between the sheets.
- Tipo de fuente
- Libro
- Autor
- Bryan Collier Short
- Título de la fuente
- Cast by Means of Figures: Herman Melville's Rhetorical Development
- Año
- 1992
- Web
- https://books.google.de/books?id=wZRe_7jLMVsC&pg=PA89&dq=%22to+kill+time%22&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwietdq0p-vYAhUR5aQKHRQjBEY4ChDoAQg9MAM#v=onepage&q=%22to%20kill%20time%22&f=false
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Especialidad
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente