no time to lose
idiom
: little time : no time to waste
We need to get started immediately. There's no time to lose.
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With no time to lose, the couple changed the wife's flight and booked her a last-minute trip to Buffalo.
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Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
To fully eradicate polio, no child can be missed and there is no time to lose.
—Cynthia Tully, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
With rising incidents of heatwaves crippling productivity whilst raising grid load across the country, and India simultaneously positioning itself as a global data center hub, there is no time to lose — the call for greater green and transition finance is now.
—Radhika Kak, Independent Researcher At Harvard Business School and Varad Pande, Partner At Bcg, CNBC, 20 Mar. 2025
As Democrats pick ourselves up off the mat after the elections, there is no time to lose in addressing the fundamental causes that led to the reelection of Donald Trump.
—Liz Krueger, New York Daily News, 17 Nov. 2024
But Agatha has no time to lose, and so in a bid to blaze through to the episode’s necessary end, their coven recruitment feels more accelerated than is perhaps convincing.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2024
The hasty handoff from President Joe Biden, who withdrew his candidacy on July 21, to Vice President Kamala Harris means that Democrats have no time to lose in motivating Americans to vote blue in November.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024
Whether the solution comes from Congress or straight from the president’s desk, there’s no time to lose, according to National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) president and CEO Kim Glas.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
To fully eradicate polio, no child can be missed and there is no time to lose.
—Cynthia Tully, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
With rising incidents of heatwaves crippling productivity whilst raising grid load across the country, and India simultaneously positioning itself as a global data center hub, there is no time to lose — the call for greater green and transition finance is now.
—Radhika Kak, Independent Researcher At Harvard Business School and Varad Pande, Partner At Bcg, CNBC, 20 Mar. 2025
As Democrats pick ourselves up off the mat after the elections, there is no time to lose in addressing the fundamental causes that led to the reelection of Donald Trump.
—Liz Krueger, New York Daily News, 17 Nov. 2024
But Agatha has no time to lose, and so in a bid to blaze through to the episode’s necessary end, their coven recruitment feels more accelerated than is perhaps convincing.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2024
The hasty handoff from President Joe Biden, who withdrew his candidacy on July 21, to Vice President Kamala Harris means that Democrats have no time to lose in motivating Americans to vote blue in November.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024
Whether the solution comes from Congress or straight from the president’s desk, there’s no time to lose, according to National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) president and CEO Kim Glas.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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“No time to lose.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no%20time%20to%20lose. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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