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单词 there is a time and place for everything
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there is a time and (a) place for everything
(a) there is a time and (a) place for everything and variants: there is an appropriate moment and context for everything (frequently implying, however, that it is not currently appropriate to do or consider something mentioned or suggested).
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1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. clxxxxiiii There is tyme and place for euery thynge As tyme of myrth, and tyme of grauyte.
1678 J. Gailhard Compl. Gentleman ii. 187 Say nothing but the truth, but do not always speak it; for there is time and place for every thing.
1750 J. Wesley Let. to Revd. Mr. Baily 20 For the present, I beg to be excused. There is a Time and a Place for all Things.
1781 Crit. Rev. May 552 We have no objection to discussions of this kind:..but surely there is a time and place for every thing.
1857 Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 28 Mar. 199/2 If we were to..shout ‘Hosannah!’ and let out our feelings, the people would wonder what we were about; but there is a time and a place for everything.
1946 Rotarian Mar. 2/2 There is a time and place for everything, you will agree, and a funny story is not the place to point a moral.
2007 G. Hurley One Under xi. 220 A time and a place for everything, son. Get this lot boxed off, and you can be on your way.
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