time burglar

English

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Noun

time burglar (plural time burglars)

  1. (informal, idiomatic) Something or someone that consumes an inordinate amount of time, especially without achieving anything productive.
    • 2012, Nick O'Kelly, Patrick Schulte, Live on the Margin: Learn to Love Risk, Profit from Fear, and Retire Tomorrow‎[1], Two Old Goats Publishing, →ISBN:
      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 […]
    • 2013, Sandra Thompson, The Ghostly Grammar Boy‎[2], →ISBN:
      Being a social climber was more of a time burglar than having a ghost twin sister.
    • 2015, Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing: A Memoir‎[3], New American Library, →ISBN:
      That's when it hits me that Brunswick is a time burglar.
      Specifically, she's stealing my time with her inane questions and now she is my nemesis.

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