make time

trouver du temps, prendre le temps

Organiser sa journée pour avoir assez de temps à consacrer à quelqu’un ou à quelque chose.

En anglais simple : To arrange your day so you have enough time for someone or something.

• Please make time for lunch.
• She made time to visit her grandmother.
• How do you make time for exercise?

Comment l'utiliser : make time for someone/something (He makes time for his children every evening.); make time to do something (We should make time to talk.)

Synonymes : find time, set aside time

Expressions courantes : make time for someone, make time to relax

rattraper le temps perdu

Aller plus vite pour récupérer le temps perdu plus tôt dans un trajet.

En anglais simple : To move faster so you recover time lost earlier in a journey.

• We can make time on the highway.
• The driver made time once the traffic cleared.
• Can we make time by taking the express train?

Comment l'utiliser : make time on something (We made time on the empty highway after the delay.)

Synonymes : make up time

Expressions courantes : make time driving, make time on something