VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Buy Time

Meaning:

Cause a delay in something with the aim of improving one’s position

Examples:

  • I need to buy time until the papers have published the false story.
  • We need to buy time.
  • We need to buy time.
  • I needed to buy time.
  • Which means he's trying to buy time for his daughter.
  • The bus is driven into the river to buy time.
  • No, but it will buy time, what little we have left.
  • Because the family's trying to buy time.
  • So New York was a misdirect to buy time.
  • It's no good stalling, trying to buy time.