takeone'stime (third-person singular simple presenttakes one's time,present participletaking one's time,simple pasttook one's time,past participletaken one's time)
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Togo about somethingslowly andcarefully or at one's ownpace.
Take your time — there's no need to rush.
1951 July, “Notes and News: Recalling 160 Years”, inRailway Magazine, page492:Working with pick, shovel, and wheelbarrow, hetook his time over the job, for it was not until May 17, 1816, that it was opened for traffic.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To takemoretime to do something than isconsideredacceptable.
You suretook your time getting here!
- (to go about something slowly and carefully):
- (take more time to do something than is considered acceptable):dawdle,taketoolong,tarry
go about something slowly and carefully
take more time to do something than is considered acceptable
