time burglar
time burglar noun: something or someone that consumes an inordinate amount of time, especially without achieving anything productive.
Noun
time burglar (plural time burglars)
- Something or someone that consumes an inordinate amount of time, especially without achieving anything productive.
- 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 […]2012, Nick O'Kelly, Patrick Schulte, Live on the Margin: Learn to Love Risk, Profit from Fear, and Retire Tomorrow, Two Old Goats Publishing, →ISBN
- Being a social climber was more of a time burglar than having a ghost twin sister.2013, Sandra Thompson, The Ghostly Grammar Boy, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- time bandit, time thief
Synonyms of time burglar
Forms of time burglar
| plural | time burglars |
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Questions about time burglar
- What does time burglar mean?
- Time burglar means something or someone that consumes an inordinate amount of time, especially without achieving anything productive.
- What part of speech is time burglar?
- Time burglar is a noun.
- What is the plural of time burglar?
- The plural of time burglar is time burglars.
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