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单词 in one's own good time
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in one's (also its) own good time
(d) in one's (also its) own good time: at one's own pace, at a pace or time that cannot be affected by outside influence; unhurriedly; at one's own good time at Phrases 3d(f).In early use with reference to a time preordained by God.
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1607 W. Cowper Jacobs Wrestling (new ed.) sig. F5v The Lord shewes thee his mercifull face, being assured, that he who hath giuen thee an earnest pennie, will in his owne good time, giue thee the principall summe.
1639 W. Laud Relation Conf. Lawd & Fisher 388 The Blessed Meeting of Truth and Peace in his Church,..which God, in his own good time, will (I hope) effect.
1722 S. Grainger Imposition of Inoculation 5 God in his own good time will either Remove, or mitigate the punishment.
1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. ii. x. 89 He did not doubt but God would bring every thing about in his own good time.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) ix. 97 He..felt that the means of escape might possibly present themselves in their own good time, but that to anticipate them was hopeless.
1879 H. James Confidence I. iv. 71 Miss Vivian, in her own good time, would doubtless mention to Gordon the little incident of Siena.
1938 Internat. Affairs 17 321 The English-speaking North Americans are old-fashioned enough and naïve enough to be going to fight for democracy in their own good time.
1992 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. 27 Mar. 19/5 The advent of high speed still photography..permitted human beings..to examine complicated temporal phenomena not in real time, but in their own good time—in leisurely, methodical backtracking analysis.
2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 330 Everything about her manner informed him that she would go in her own good time and not a moment before.
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