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no time like the present

no time like the present is the clipping of there's no time like the present.

Meaning of there's no time like the present

Proverb

there's no time like the present

  1. Now is an appropriate time to take a particular action.
    • Near-synonyms: he who hesitates is lost, never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, procrastination is the thief of time

Questions about no time like the present

What is no time like the present the clipping of?
No time like the present is the clipping of there's no time like the present.

Words near no time like the present in the dictionary

  1. no thru way
  2. no thru-way
  3. no thruway
  4. no tickee, no washee
  5. no time
  6. no time like the present
  7. no time to lose
  8. no trespassing
  9. no true Scotsman fallacies
  10. no true Scotsman fallacy
  11. no trump

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Adapted from Wiktionary: no time like the present (page history and authors); there's no time like the present (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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