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 Translation for 'waste of time' from English to Russian
NOUN   a waste of time | -
пустая трата {ж} времениwaste of time
Partial Matches
время {с} [продолжительность]amount of time
время {с} [на часах]time of day
линг.
обстоятельство {с} времени
adverbial modifier of time
масса {ж} времениa lot of time
в течении времениover the course of time
послов.
Не откладывай на завтра то, что можно сделать сегодня.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Это только вопрос времени (когда ... )It's only a matter of time (before ... )
лит.F
Город и псы [Марио Варгас Льоса]
The Time of the Hero [Mario Vargas Llosa]
Eму пришлось тяжело.He has had a hard time of it.
лит.F
В поисках утраченного времени [Марсель Пруст]
In Search of Lost Time / Remembrance of Things­ Past [Marcel Proust]
растрачивать [несов.] [расходовать неразумно]to waste [to squander]
3
транжирство {с} [разг.]waste [squandering]
отбросы {мн}waste [rubbish]
расточительство {с}waste [extravagant use]
послов.
Поспешишь - людей насмешишь.
Haste makes waste.
время {с}time
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unverified назначенное время {noun}fixed time
свободное время {с}leisure time
физ.
планковское время {с}
Planck time
тайм-аут {м}time out
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Translation for 'waste of time' from English to Russian

waste of time
пустая трата {ж} времени

amount of time
время {с} [продолжительность]
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time of day
время {с} [на часах]
adverbial modifier of time
обстоятельство {с} временилинг.
a lot of time
масса {ж} времени
over the course of time
в течении времени
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Не откладывай на завтра то, что можно сделать сегодня.послов.
It's only a matter of time (before ... )
Это только вопрос времени (когда ... )
The Time of the Hero [Mario Vargas Llosa]
Город и псы [Марио Варгас Льоса]лит.F
He has had a hard time of it.
Eму пришлось тяжело.
In Search of Lost Time / Remembrance of Things­ Past [Marcel Proust]
В поисках утраченного времени [Марсель Пруст]лит.F
to waste [to squander]
растрачивать [несов.] [расходовать неразумно]
waste [squandering]
транжирство {с} [разг.]
waste [rubbish]
отбросы {мн}
waste [extravagant use]
расточительство {с}
Haste makes waste.
Поспешишь - людей насмешишь.послов.
time
время {с}
fixed time
unverified назначенное время {noun}
leisure time
свободное время {с}
Planck time
планковское время {с}физ.
time out
тайм-аут {м}
Usage Examples English
  • In August 2014 Chapman was quoted as saying that taking children to art galleries is a "total waste of time", stating that "children are not human yet."
  • Korn did not make a music video for "No Place to Hide", as Davis said it was a "waste of time and money" and mentioned the band's "integrity".
  • "The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money" was published in 2018 by Princeton University Press.
  • In the aftermath, though local and state authorities vowed to thoroughly investigate the lynching as well as the Madison Home Guard's dereliction of duty, just a week later a grand jury was advised by a judge of the superior court of Madison that any investigation would be a waste of time.
  • For other communities, such as Mollie, the loss of the gas and oil workers meant that the local post office was a "waste of time", and consumer demand at the general store was significantly diminished.

  • Löwenthal, who had often played and defeated talented youngsters, considered the informal match a waste of time but accepted the offer as a courtesy to the well-to-do judge.
  • For whatever reason, the public saw efforts at civil defense as fundamentally ineffective against the powerful destructive forces of nuclear weapons, and therefore a waste of time and money, although detailed scientific research programs did underlie the much-mocked government civil defense pamphlets of the 1950s and 1960s.
  • Exceptions have since been abolished, due to the widespread recognition that forcing lawyers to take them was a waste of time.
  • This was a waste of time for programs that had other tasks to do.
  • In October 2018, European controller unions dismissed setting targets to improve ATC as "a waste of time and effort" as new technology could cut costs for users but threaten their jobs.

  • Thus, by the start of the seventeenth century a play like Everyman would be regarded "as at best a waste of time and at worst a sinful, 'popish' excess."
  • The ever-more impressive accomplishments of empirical science had led to a general consensus in academia that the development of comprehensive metaphysical systems was a waste of time because they were not subject to empirical testing.
  • Resistance to ratification took many forms: anti-suffragists continued to say the amendment would never be approved by the November 1920 elections and that special sessions were a waste of time and effort.
  • Politics is inevitable and is probably even necessary and helpful, but it is also a tremendous waste of time and effort, as well as being a prime temptation to allow ego to run rampant.
  • Burwell" requested abeyance of that case as the matter would be resolved in "King" and it would be a waste of time and effort to try to resolve it in the "Halbig" case.

  • This decision was criticized by Berkeley the following year, calling the reopening of the cases of elements 101 to 103 a "futile waste of time", while Dubna agreed with IUPAC's decision.
  • Having spent what he described as "a complete waste of time" trying to track down bootlegged Minor Threat merchandise, MacKaye and Dischord made arrangements with a merchandise company in California to manage licensing of the band's shirts, as well as working to ensure that bootleg manufacturers of the shirts were curtailed.
  • They view self-exploration as a waste of time and have a patronising attitude towards emotional people.
  • Film reviewers were generally negative; Kevin Thomas of the "Los Angeles Times" called the film "ludicrous", "preposterous", and "a total waste of time", saying it "achieves a kind of perfection of awfulness that only earnest effort can produce".
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