it's high time

it's high time
it's high time
Rur. it is about the right time for something. •

It's high time we were leaving.

It's high time you started thinking about saving for your old age.

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{informal sentence} It is overdue. * /It is high time for John Browning to be promoted to full professor; he has written a great deal but his books went unnoticed./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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