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make up for lost time

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, make up ground . Hurry to compensate for wasted time, as in They married late but hoped to make up for lost time , or We're behind in the schedule, and we'll just have to make up ground as best we can . The first term was first recorded in 1774; the variant dates from the late 1800s.

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I wanted to travel the world, and I wanted to fill up the daddy well, and, you know, really spend time with my kids and make up for lost time.

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The first few Christmases I returned to my hometown, I felt all-powerful and completely helpless, grappling with the memory of how things used to be while overindulging in bad decisions to make up for lost time.

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But he would make up for lost time.

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Daniel James says his Euros penalty heartache is behind him – if not entirely forgotten – as he aims to make up for lost time with Craig Bellamy’s Wales.

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She doesn't know much about their lives she says, but she hopes to make up for lost time.

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make up make up one's mind

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