pressed for time

adj

pressed for time

adj

1

Idiomatic in a hurry, without spare time.

So as neither of them were particularly pressed for time, as it happened, and the temperature refreshing since it cleared up after the recent visitation of Jupiter Pluvius, they dandered along past by where the empty vehicle was waiting without a fare or a jarveyEpisode 16
He seemed to be pressed for time and I gathered that telephoning at all was rather risky.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:

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But as our urban lives have grown more pressed for time, we have diced our opportunity costs finer and finer; from budgeting days or slabs of hours, we have come to rationing minutes.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:

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