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Time Consuming

David 7 October 2016

I had a friend who would eat clocks for lunch. Eating with him was Same word, two meanings literal time consuming (temporal) Taking up a lot of time; requiring much time to complete. payoff time consuming (eating clocks) Literally consuming clocks, which measure time; eating time itself. The phrase 'time consuming' works both as an idiom meaning 'lengthy' and as a literal description of eating clocks (time-measuring devices). .