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IN GOOD TIME
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At the appropriate time
Example:
we'll get to this question in due course
Synonyms:
in due course; in due season; in due time; in good time; when the time comes
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Context examples:
Mr. Weston directed the whole, officiating safely between Hartfield and the Vicarage, and every body was in good time.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The band on the pier is playing a harsh waltz in good time, and further along the quay there is a Salvation Army meeting in a back street.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Well, we came to the old boat again in good time at night; and there Mr. and Mrs. Barkis bade us good-bye, and drove away snugly to their own home.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Truly you came in good time, honored sir,” said he.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But nothing of that kind occurred, no visitors appeared to delay them, and they all three set off in good time for the pump-room, where the ordinary course of events and conversation took place; Mr. Allen, after drinking his glass of water, joined some gentlemen to talk over the politics of the day and compare the accounts of their newspapers; and the ladies walked about together, noticing every new face, and almost every new bonnet in the room.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
We are evidently in good time, and when we hear of the Czarina Catherine we shall be ready.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“All in good time!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
We shall tell you all in good time.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
She was a pretty, good-natured girl, and put my hair away from my eyes with a soft, kind touch; but she was very cheerful at having nearly finished her work and being in good time, and was so different from me!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Van Helsing put out his hand and took the paper, saying:—"Do not trouble about it now. Forget it for the present. You shall know and understand it all in good time; but it will be later. And now what is it that you came to me to say?"
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
