buy time
Verb
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Verb
buy time
- (idiomatic) Purposefully cause a delay, in order to achieve something else.
- We need you to buy us some time, so distract the security guard for a few minutes.
- French: gagner du temps
- German: Zeit gewinnen
- Russian: вы́играть вре́мя
- Spanish: ganar tiempo
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