keep time

[keep time] {v. phr.}

1. To show the right time.

* /My watch has not kept good time since I dropped it./

2. To keep the beat; keep the same rhythm; keep in step.

* /Many people are surprised at how well deaf people keep time with the music when they dance./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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