high time (state of extreme urgency after having delayed something important for almost too long)
çekim: tamlayan höchster Eisenbahn
köken: Literally, “highest train”. Apparently from a malapropism used in a 1847 theater play by Adolf Glassbrenner.
aile: allerhöchste Eisenbahn
🔊 Sind noch Punkte offen, ist es jetzt "höchste Eisenbahn" zu vereinbaren, wie damit weiterverfahren werden soll.
about time, it was high time
at last, finally
köken: From Middle Dutch eindelijc, variant of endelijc. Equivalent to einde + -lijk.
about time (it is far past the desired time)
about time (past the desired time, but finally happening)
köken: From på (“on”) + tiden (“the time”). English on time is a false friend.
🔊 Det var på tiden att den där helt omoderna lagen avskaffades
high time (point in time at which something is utterly due)
çekim: çoğul najwyższe czasy · tamlayan najwyższego czasu
köken: Literally, “highest time”. Calque of Latin summum tempus.
third-person singular single-possession possessive of idő
köken: idő + -je (possessive suffix)
aile: van ideje
🔊 Ideje hazamenni.
🔊 Van ideje?
about time
🔊 Det er på tide at få gjort noget ved det.
due time, high time, about time
çekim: çoğul mithidí · tamlayan mithide
köken: From Middle Irish mithid, alteration of Old Irish mithig. The final /d/ of the modern form may be due to assimilation to the following preposition do.
🔊 Is mithid dom imeacht.
🔊 Is mithid liom imeacht.