BrE slang
What people will waste their time on, he thought to himself.
I've got too much work to do to waste my time.
Why he should waste our time thus is beyond me.
Now what am I going to waste my time doing?
And I will not waste our time in going over old ground.
He should have known better than to waste his time talking.
Wouldn't waste their time coming to look for just two men.
Why would he waste his time on someone like her?
And I didn't come up here to waste my time.
But I won't waste my time on games any more.
Well, they had certainly lost no time in making themselves known to him!
They had lost no time at all in getting to work.
He lost no time in going to work on his chief.
Each time we move to a new world, a little more is lost.
No time would be lost while the two men were coming from the hold.
And here again, no time should be lost in getting to work.
He was the one who made us lose time at the start.
His team was so poor that he lost time looking after the others.
Maybe food was one way they made a person lose time.
There she lost no time in making them all small again.
Idiome