‘THE FOURTH DIMENSION’ TIME IN ENGLISH IDIOMS
‘THE FOURTH DIMENSION’ TIME IN ENGLISH IDIOMS

Summary/Abstract: Time is ‘the indefinite continuous progress of existence and events in the past, present and future regarded as a whole’. It has fascinated and puzzled people from the dawn of our consciousness and still presents a mystery to scientific, philosophical and religious thinkers alike. The presence of its effects is undeniable and our awareness of it is evident both in our way of thinking and in its linguistic expression: idioms. The present paper is not an attempt to exhaustively list all the English idioms that contain references to time, but to present the probable or possible origin of a few more interesting or intriguing ‘specimens’.

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