high time

Noun

high time (countable and uncountable, plural high times)

1. (idiomatic, uncountable) A point in time at which something is considered to be utterly due or even overdue to occur; well past time.
   • "But it is high time for me to have done with the argument, as it is to be judged of according to scripture evidence."1729, John Norman, God's Foreknowledge of contingent Events vindicated, page 27
   • "I will await no longer," said Lindesay; "it is high time the business were done."1820, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 21, in The Abbot

   Synonyms:

   about time

2. (countable, idiomatic) A very enjoyable or exciting experience or period of time.
   • [T]here's going to be a high time in the Blue City tonight. We'll have music and dancing and eating.1912, L. Frank Baum, chapter 25, in Sky Island
   • For Alice had lived, from early in her girlhood, a life of flowers, and song, and wine, and dance. . . . And her tight tongue had served her well . . . . [N]one ever heard her gossip of the times of Kalakaua's boathouse, nor of the high times of officers of visiting warships.1916, Jack London, “When Alice Told Her Soul”, in On the Makaloa Mat: Island Tales

   Synonyms:

   high old time, hoot