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单词 not before time
释义

not before time

Used to convey that something now happening or about to happen should have happened earlier: a new law is proposed to curb this type of blatantly dishonest description, and not before time...
  • ‘Well done Peter’, we all say, and not before time!
  • And it is not before time that he is recognised and I am absolutely delighted for him.
  • These new officers are not before time, but we still need more bobbies on the beat.
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