lose time

lose time (third-person singular simple present loses time, present participle losing time, simple past and past participle lost time)

1. (of a clock) to go slow and not keep accurate time.
2. (of a person etc.) to fall behind schedule.
   • On the third day the train lost time more and more. She raged with painful impatience. No good, at every station the train sat longer.

• melitose, mesolite, misletoe