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单词 time is up
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time is (also was, etc.) up
g. time is (also was, etc.) up.
(a) With possessive, indicating that a period of time allotted to a person (for a task, visit, activity, etc.) or to a thing has ended, or will soon end.
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1651 E. Hall Lingua Testium 7 God declares to him [sc. the prophet Daniel] how long the dissipation of the Jewes shall be, which..began Anno 360. therefore their time is up about this yeare 1650. their time of dissipation being to continue 1290. years.
1694 J. Collier Misc. iii. 18 My Time is up, I must leave you.
1784 H. Cowley More Ways than One i. ii. 11 Tell her that a peerage, like the parliament, lasts but seven years, and that your time is up.
1808 Gentleman's Mag. July 592/2 Still less can I discover any reason why, soon after the Taste which presides in Bond-street has hit upon a becoming article, it should give way to one less so, merely because ‘its time is up’.
1896 Cambr. Rev. 26 Nov. 109/1 My allowed time was up.
1958 New Statesman 6 Sept. 330/2 Farewell, adieu, BM and PRO, My time is up, reluctantly I go.
1997 Daily Tel. 7 Apr. 20/3 Helmut Kohl has declared war on the conventional wisdom that after 15 years in power, his time is up.
(b) Without possessive, indicating that an allotted period of time has ended or must end. Also as a warning exclamation, esp. as time's up.
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a1673 T. Horton 100 Select Serm. (1679) xv. 112 If the time be up it is no matter when it is first begun.
1792 Ann. Reg. 1789 Chron. 199/2 Ryan put in the first blow on the chest of his opponent, and brought him down. When the time was up, and each were on their guard, Johnson returned the compliment.
1826 Lit. Lounger Apr. 163 Chapel bell is done tolling—time is up.
1871 G. R. Cathcart Cathcart's Youth's Speaker cxxxiii. 140 Time's up, Sly... If I catch you running over time again, I'll wallop you!
1901 R. Fitzsimmons Physical Culture 159 Time was up. The champion was out.
1980 B. Okri Flowers & Shadows vii. 58 Well, Jero, time is up. You'd better be going now.
2002 C. Williams Sugar & Slate 187 Time's up! I'm outa here.
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