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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 ?

"It's Burning Daylight," the Virgin cried, the first to recognize him as he came into the light.

He scribbled the amount on a pad, and the weigher at the bar balanced fifty dollars' worth of dust in the gold-scales and poured it into Burning Daylight's sack.

"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.

Men who entered from the street felt it immediately, and in response to their queries the barkeepers nodded at the back room, and said comprehensively, "Burning Daylight's on the tear." And the men who entered remained, and kept the barkeepers busy.

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.

"Burning Daylight's burning candlelight," laughed Dan MacDonald, as an outburst of exclamations and merriment came from the dancers.

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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!

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

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