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burn daylight

To waste time or procrastinate. Come on, let's get started on our hike—we're burning daylight just standing around here!

burn daylight

use artificial light in daytime; waste daylight.

See also: burn, daylight

References in classic literature ?

With the advent of Burning Daylight the whole place became suddenly brighter and cheerier.

You're right, my son," Burning Daylight went on gaily.

Men and women danced in moccasins, and the place was soon a-roar, Burning Daylight the centre of it and the animating spark, with quip and jest and rough merriment rousing them out of the slough of despond in which he had found them.

Few men knew Elam Harnish by any other name than Burning Daylight, the name which had been given him in the early days in the land because of his habit of routing his comrades out of their blankets with the complaint that daylight was burning.

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Simpler said than done, but we are burning daylight, and other regions are passing us by.

How can we stop other regions from passing us by? The challenge for NH is to compete with hot (and hip) cities

There is nothing I hate more than burning daylight hours and worse, three- to four-dollar-a-gallon fuel in green water.

The report: find blue water and save big using sea surface temp services

LEWIS HAMILTON roared to a dream victory that outshone the 1,300 arc lights burning daylight into the Singapore night.

DREAMS DO COME TRUE; SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX Nico's bad luck fires Hamilton to the top and reignites the title race.. and Lew saw it happen in his sleep

I need to sign off now, I'm burning daylight, plus the afternoons and early evenings are hot, so I try to do outside chores before the temperature reaches the mid 90s.

Too much of a good thing!

Because all you're doing is burning daylight," she stated.

Americans increasingly seeking counselling before entering into relationships

Even his more "romantic" novels, such as Burning Daylight, incorporate radical undercurrents.

The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution

First, I'd have to leave my room and shield my eyes from the burning daylight

WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH YOUR TIME IF MYSPACE DIDN'T EXIST?

A FEW MONTHS AGO I was watching the excellent Burning Daylight video out of Colorado when, in between all the crooked grinds and kickflips, a maniac appeared on screen jumping off walls, throwing out backflips, and totally going for it in a style closer to Bruce Lee than Jason Lee.

Mile high skate ninja: William Spencer

If you are sleeping past 6:00am you are burning daylight and committing a fatal error.

It ain't easy

His Alaskan stories--Call of the Wild, The (1903), White Fang (1906), and BURNING DAYLIGHT (1910)--in which he dramatized, in turn, atavism, adaptability, and the appeal of the wilderness are outstanding.

London, Jack

Throughout his career, from his first novel A Daughter of the Snows, through Burning Daylight (1910), to his last published novel, The Little Lady of the Big House (1916), London constructs a model of "new womanhood" consistent in its emphasis on a physical power and capability and an economic and intellectual independence that is nonetheless feminine and heterosexual.