take one's sweet time
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[edit]take one's sweet time (third-person singular simple present takes one's sweet time, present participle taking one's sweet time, simple past took one's sweet time, past participle taken one's sweet time)
- (colloquial) To take a very long time; to be too slow or leisurely in getting something done.
- Synonym: take one's sweet little time
- 2012, Patsy Caldwell, Amy Lyles Wilson, You Be Sweet: Sharing Your Heart One Down-Home Dessert at a Time:
- It had been almost a year since Brother Steve had left, and they'd been stuck with one substitute after another while the bishop took his sweet time finding a permanent replacement. Lindsay just hoped the wait would be worth it.
- 2008, “In the New Year”, performed by The Walkmen:
- You took your sweet time
And I waited by without complaint
'Til all the pipe dreams made me insane