Origins of Expressions

  Time To Kill Watch this on YouTube here - TIME Video YouTube Video Meaning:  This phrase is when you have nothing to do for a while you have extra time on your hands   Example Sentence:  “Hey we have time to kill before the movie, want to grab some dinner?”   Origin:  This phrase was first expressed in 1590 from the fishing Book called A Book of Fishing with Hooke and Line by Leonard Mascall the passage reads:                 “… wishing that all anglers would not angle in unseasonable times, as from mid-March to mid-May, for then it is the chiefest spawning time, an increase of fish; a great number there is in this realm which governs water that spares no time to kill nor cares for no time to save, but it takes at all time, which maketh freshe fishe so deare, and so scant in river and running waters.” TIME Video - YouTube Video

  In the Nick of Time Watch this on YouTube here - TIME Video YouTube Video   Meaning: This phrase means that you are just in time, or you just made it without being late   Example Sentence:  “I woke up just in the nick of time to catch the school bus.”   Origin:  This phrase was seen in a chronicle from 1577 the Romaine Navie it reads “… arrived at the very pinch or as commonly we said in the nick.” “of time” was added to that phrase a century later too” just in the nick of time” the new saying continued the phrase was probably cliche when Sir Walter Scott wrote it in The Pirate in 1821 he wrote: “The fortunate arrival of Gordaunt, in the very nick of time.”   TIME Video - YouTube Video

  Lose Track of Time Watch this on YouTube here - TIME Video YouTube Video Meaning: Not being aware of time, when more time has passed then what you wanted   Example Sentence:  “I started playing a video game, and lost track of time, I played for six hours.”   Origin:  This idiom is quite interesting. It came about with the implementation of standardized time. Standardized time happened between 1884 when the prime Meridian conference happened, and 1913 when time got globally broadcasted from the Eiffel Tower because railroads needed standard times. This change led to the end of many local times and everyone being on the same time for this idiom there is no exact time to when it was first started many writers made time their subjects because of this there are many variations of “lose track of time” one of my favorites is HG wells The Time Machine it reads “…you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in time, for instance, if I am recalling an inci...