Collocation Topic: Time

Take your time

To use as much time as you need without rushing.

Ungodly hours

Times that are very late at night or extremely early in the morning.

Be a slave to your grueling schedule

Being completely controlled by a very intense, difficult, and demanding timetable.

Pressing commitments

Urgent appointments, duties, or things that you absolutely must do.

Establish a timeline

To create a schedule or plan showing the order and dates in which things should happen.

Leave things to the last minute

To delay doing something until the final possible moment before it is due.

Run out of time

Having very little or no time left to finish a task.

Get ahead

To make progress faster or do work earlier than required.

Fall behind

Failing to make enough progress or lag behind the planned schedule.

solid hours

continuous and uninterrupted period of

From dawn till dusk

From the very early morning until the late evening.

Cut back on your hours

To reduce the total number of hours that you spend working.

Free up some time

To make more time available in your schedule by eliminating other tasks.