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Isn't this the wrong time to visit him?

By opening my mouth at the wrong time, I'm always putting myself and my pals behind the eight ball.

A word spoken at the wrong time can do very much more harm than good.

Ancestral mothers couldn't waste scarce resources on babies born at the wrong time, so they killed the kid and waited for a less inconvenient one.

" The Guardian , under the headline "Unhappy Birthday," said the celebrations were taking place "in the wrong place at the wrong time" because "the war will need to be over--'won' is hardly apt--before the profoundest question of this anniversary season can be addressed: whether the North Atlantic Alliance can and should continue into the 21 st century.

It's the stuff of classic farce, which puts the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time and then fiendishly ups the ante.

In some cases, murder, mayhem, and, to borrow a tasteless euphemism from social conflict, linguistic cleansing have been aroused by language-not by vituperation, cursing, and blasphemy but simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time speaking a particular language or dialect.

The sentinels of the crows are not only always on the watch, but they are extremely discriminating; they do not give a warning at the wrong time.

"You always manage to do things at the wrong time," continued Vera.


"You came rushing into the drawing room so that everyone felt ashamed of you.


" "Oh, come now! As if you could come at a wrong time!" said Boris, and he led him into the room where the supper table was laid and introduced him to his guests, explaining that he was not a civilian, but an hussar officer, and an old friend of his.


Mr. Pitt had very nearly made him; but he ratted always at the wrong time.

I never was without good, kind, generous friends and lovers, so they say-so they were and are,-perhaps they came at the wrong time-I never wanted them-though that makes no difference in my gratitude I trust,-but I know myself-surely-and always have done so, for is there not somewhere the little book I first printed when a boy, with John Mill, the metaphysical head, his marginal note that 'the writer possesses a deeper self-consciousness than I ever knew in a sane human being.' So I never deceived myself much, nor called my feelings for people other than they were.

To keep away all the ten days before, and to come just at the wrong time after all! There was nothing wrong in anything she said, but she said it at the wrong time.

People were tumbling over each other in their haste, and making impossible demands, each one being anxious to have his luggage produced first, though the said luggage might be at the bottom of the hold; babies, as babies always do, persisted in crying just at the wrong time; articles essential to the toilet were missing, and sixpences or half-sovereigns had found their way into impossible crevices.

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