Definition
A point in time at which something is considered to be utterly due or even overdue to occur; well past time.
A very enjoyable or exciting experience or period of time.
In Context
- ""But it is high time for me to have done with the argument, as it is to be judged of according to scripture evidence.""
- ""I will await no longer," said Lindesay; "it is high time the business were done.""
- "I thought it was high time, now or never, before the light was put out, to break the spell in which I had so long been bound."
- ""But I haven't ridden for years." "Then it's high time you began again.""
- "It is high time to cease sensationalism and war mongering, pause and think twice about where we are heading."
- "[T]here's going to be a high time in the Blue City tonight. We'll have music and dancing and eating."
- "For Alice had lived, from early in her girlhood, a life of flowers, and song, and wine, and dance. . . . And her tight tongue had served her well . . . . [N]one ever heard her gossip of the times of Kalakaua's boathouse, nor of the high times of officers of visiting warships."
- "[T]he film intelligently deploys familiar thriller elements: chases; shoot-outs; high-level duplicity; terse, sassy dialogue; and a cast having a high time playing preening villains and wily good guys."