pressed for time

pressed for time
in a hurry, without spare time.

So as neither of them were particularly pressed for time, as it happened, and the temperature refreshing since it cleared up after the recent visitation of Jupiter Pluvius, they dandered along past by where the empty vehicle was waiting without a fare or a jarvey


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  • pressed for time — If you are pressed for time, you are in a hurry or working against a very tight schedule …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • pressed for time —    If you are pressed for time, you are in a hurry or working against a very tight schedule.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    If you are pressed for time, you have hardly enough time to do something, so you must hurry.     Sorry, I can t… …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • pressed for time — have barely enough time He was pressed for time so I didn t have a chance to speak to him …   Idioms and examples

  • pressed for time — feeling that you have to hurry and are late. I was pressed for time to finish my business and catch my plane …   New idioms dictionary

  • pressed for time — without much time, running out of time, in a hurry …   English contemporary dictionary

  • pressed adj, be - for time — Dry cleaners are often pressed for time …   English expressions

  • be pressed for — you shouldn t schedule an interview when you are pressed for time Syn: have too little, be short of, have insufficient, lack, be lacking (in), be deficient in, need, be/stand in need of; informal be strapped for …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • pressed — [prest] adj be pressed for time/money etc to not have enough time, money etc …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • pressed — [[t]pre̱st[/t]] ADJ GRADED: v link ADJ, usu ADJ for n If you say that you are pressed for time or pressed for money, you mean that you do not have enough time or money at the moment. → See also hard pressed Are you pressed for time, Mr Bayliss?… …   English dictionary

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