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time stands still

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time stands still

  1. Used to emphasize a moment in time that is either catastrophic or even enjoyable in which one's sense of time is frozen or suspended.
    • 1735, William Congreve, Plays ... In two volumes, page 39:
      Life without love is load; and time stands still; what we refuse to him, to Death we give, And then, then only, when we love, we live.
    • 1741, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), The Happy Captive, An English Opera:
      Each long moment seems a day, time stands still, when she's away.
    • 1828, Abner Kneeland (contributor), The Olive Branch and Christian Inquirer:
      When one event is continuous, time stands still; for we form no idea of time by the presence or continuance of a single event but we do so by the change of other events at the time.

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