sprecare tempo — meaning in English
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English meaning
- idle adj Not working, active, or in use.
Senses
sprecare tempo is used for these senses in English:
- flog a dead horse (British, idiomatic) To attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more; to attempt to arouse fresh interest in something that is either hopeless or already settled.
- idle (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
idle — full definition
- adj Not working, active, or in use.
- adj Lazy or unwilling to work.
- verb Of an engine, to run slowly while not driving anything, such as a car sitting still with the motor on.
- verb To pass time doing nothing productive.
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