mark time
English
Verb
mark time (third-person singular simple present marks time, present participle marking time, simple past and past participle marked time)
- (idiomatic, marching) To march in place, while still in step with the beat.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 149:
- Next, they were ordered to converge on Bischofsburg. They had spent the morning marking time there.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 149:
- (figuratively) To stop making progress temporarily.
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