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Mark time

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  1. 1
    To march in place, while still in step with the beat.

    "When the colonel has given the signal for the music to beat time, he will give the caution for the movement as above; and the lieutenant colonel will immediately give the word to the right wing to mark time."

  2. 2
    To stop making progress temporarily; to wait or stand still. broadly, figuratively

    "Monday noon I chased over to the Auditorium and they was only about eighty in line ahead o' me[…] While I was markin' time I looked at the pitchers o' the different actors,"

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