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Gray olive 661 Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

English Doubt- the time of day

What does the below sentence means?

Co-working spaces haven’t always been as popular as they are now.

"Until the early part of the previous decade, few might’ve given the concept the time of day. Today we happily pool a private cab ride and give up our precious garage space for others to rent."

  

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Literally, if you "won't give someone the time of day", it means that you refuse to greet them with a time-of-day-related greeting such as "Good morning" or "Good evening". Commonly, as in your sentence, the expression is used figuratively, to mean that you reject or dismiss someone/something, and won't pay any attention to it/them. "give up our precious garage space for others to rent" = allow others to use our precious garage space in return for a payment of rent.

— GPY

  • Literally, if you "won't give someone the time of day", it means that you refuse to greet them with a time-of-day-related greeting such as "Good morning" or "Good evening".
  • Commonly, as in your sentence, the expression is used figuratively, to mean that you reject or dismiss someone/something, and won't pay any attention to it/them.
  • "give up our precious garage space for others to rent" = allow others to use our precious garage space in return for a payment of rent.
  • "precious" is slightly ironic.
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Literally, if you "won't give someone the time of day", it means that you refuse to greet them with a time-of-day-related greeting such as "Good morning" or "Good evening". Commonly, as in your sentence, the expression is used figuratively, to mean that you reject or dismiss someone/something, and won't pay any attention to it/them.

"give up our precious garage space for others to rent"

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not to give someone (or something) the time of day is an idiom that means to ignore something as unimportant, trivial, and not worth any amount time to consider.

The literal meaning of giving someone the time of day is telling someone what time it is.

— What time is it?
— It's one o'clock.

In the little exchange above, someone gave another person the

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