Time Burglar Meaning

Time Burglar is an idiom. The meaning of this idiom is (informal, idiomatic) Something or someone that consumes an inordinate amount of time, especially without achieving anything productive.. Explore more Idiom Meanings.

Time Burglar

(informal, idiomatic) Something or someone that consumes an inordinate amount of time, especially without achieving anything productive.

Example : 2012, Nick O'Kelly & Patrick Schulte, Live on the Margin: Learn to Love Risk, Profit from Fear, and Retire Tomorrow, Two Old Goats Publishing (2012), ISBN 9780578116648, unnumbered pages:  Hey, TV can be a great source of learning, information, and keeping your kids occupied, but if your priorities are shifting and you want to grow out of your current life and into a new one, it's a time burglar […]2013, Sandra Thompson, The Ghostly Grammar Boy, ISBN 9781492306184, unnumbered page:  Being a social climber was more of a time burglar than having a ghost twin sister.2015, Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir, New American Library (2015), ISBN 9780698166981, unnumbered page:  That's when it hits me that Brunswick is a time burglar.  Specifically, she's stealing my time with her inane questions and now she is my nemesis.

Meaning of Time Burglar

Time Burglar is an idiom. It is one of the most commonly used expressions in English writings. Time Burglar stands for (informal, idiomatic) Something or someone that consumes an inordinate amount of time, especially without achieving anything productive.. Explore Urdupoint to find out more popular Idioms and Idiom Meanings, to amplify your writings

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