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about time

[about time] {n. phr.}

Finally, but later than it should have been; at last.

/Mother said, "It's about time you got up, Mary."/

/The basketball team won last night. About time./

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates © 2010

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