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thysen
(yourself):
There is a TIME and place for everything
An expanded version of
there is a TIME for everything
.
1509
Ship of Fools
94
Remember: there is tyme and place for euery thynge.
1862
Wild Wales
II. x.
There is a time and place for everything, and sometimes the warmest admirer of ale would prefer the lymph of the hill-side fountain to the choicest ale.
1986
Dead Liberty
iv.
A memory from A Midsummer Night's Dream to do with Snout serving the office of a wall welled up in Sloan's mind, but he suppressed it instantly. There was a time and a place for everything.
opportunity
;
orderliness
;
time
TIME and tide wait for no man
c
1390
Clerk's Tale
l. 118
For thogh we slepe or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nil no [will no] man abyde.
a
1520
Everyman
(1961) l. 143
The Tyde abydeth no man.
1592
Disputation between He Cony-catcher & She Cony-catcher
X. 241
Tyde nor time tarrieth no man.
1639
Parœmiologia Anglo-Latina
233
Time and tide tary on no man.
1767
Disappointment
II
. i.
Let's step into the state-room, and turn in: Time and tide waits for no one.
1822
Nigel
III. ii.
Come, come, master, let us get afloat … Time and tide wait for no man.
1979
Some die Eloquent
x.
Time and tide and newspapers wait for no man.
opportunity
;
time
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