"Buying time till I get approval"
http://mwillett.org/Debate/viewtopic.php?t=84
And other examples by googling eg. "buying my time until".
Adrian
> Buying time is figuratively possible, but it seems to have infected the
> expression "bide time"...
That's how I see it.
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Stefano
Thanks.
<http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/553/buy/>
Chris Waigl
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