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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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I would like to know what is the meaning or how to use in a sentence for the word Take Your Time.
  

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The phrase 'Take your time' is used to assure another person that there is no need to hurry at a task: ' Take your time. ' As an idiom, it is not fixed, and it means 'work slowly and carefully': ' I took my time finishing my project because it had to be perfect '. It can also be used in a cautionary way to indicate simple slowness: ' Well, you certainly took your time!

  • The phrase 'Take your time' is used to assure another person that there is no need to hurry at a task: ' Take your time.
  • ' As an idiom, it is not fixed, and it means 'work slowly and carefully': ' I took my time finishing my project because it had to be perfect '.
  • It can also be used in a cautionary way to indicate simple slowness: ' Well, you certainly took your time!
  • You were supposed to be here at 8 o'clock, and it's almost 8:30!
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The phrase 'Take your time' is used to assure another person that there is no need to hurry at a task: 'Take your time. I don't need the report until next week.'

As an idiom, it is not fixed, and it means 'work slowly and carefully': 'I took my time finishing my project because it had to be perfect'. It can also be used in a cautionary way to indicate simple slowness:

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