there is a time for everything
- there is a time for everything
With allusion to ECCLESIASTES iii. 1 (AV) To every thing there is a season.
c 1390 CHAUCER Clerk’s Prologue 1. 6 But Salomon seith ‘every thyng hath tyme’.
1540 CRANMER Bible (Prologue) +3 Ther is tyme for euery thynge.
1590 SHAKESPEARE Comedy of Errors II. ii. 63 Well, sir, learn to jest in good time; there’s time for all things.
1818 J. AUSTEN Northanger Abbey xxx. Your head runs too much upon Bath; but there is a time for every thing—a time for balls..and a time for work.
1980 ‘M. INNES’ Going It Alone I. x. There is a time for everything, and he hoped that, in the present exigency, Tim wasn’t going to be..frivolous.
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