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When the time comes   /wɛn ðə taɪm kəmz/   Listen
When the time comes

adverb
1.
At the appropriate time.  Synonyms: in due course, in due season, in due time, in good time.






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"When the time comes" Quotes from Famous Books



... sometimes influenced by such. I tell you now, madam, I shall not be. Your entreaties will have no weight. When the time comes for you to leave Nissr, I trust you will go quietly, ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England

... bureaus and country stores in keeping up the gossip and endless exchange of opinions among mankind, so much of which is made to appear to the women at home as "business." I find that there is a sort of busy idleness among men in this world that is not held in disrepute. When the time comes that I have to prove my right to vote, with women, I trust that it will be remembered in my favor that I made this admission. If it is true, as a witty conservative once said to me, that we never shall have peace in this country until we elect a colored woman president, ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... finished. Hartel spoke to me about your letter in connection with this affair about two months ago; and, in my opinion, you cannot do better than give the poem to the public while you finish the score. As to the definite performance of the three operas we must have a good talk when the time comes. If in the worst case you are not then back in Germany (and I need not tell you how I wish that this worst case should not happen), I shall stir in every possible way for the production of your work. You may rely on my practical talents for that ...
— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1 • Francis Hueffer (translator)

... replied Offitt, "I admire your pluck, and I'll swear a blue streak for you when the time comes. And perhaps I had better get away now so they won't know I've been ...
— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay

... hers; for if at the conclusion of next season she will go to America for a year, she will more than realize the result she proposes to herself.... I cannot, however, help fearing that obstacles may arise to prevent her eventually fulfilling her purpose when the time comes for her retiring, according to ...
— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble


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