burn daylight
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "O, Madam, no candles yet, I beseech you ; don't let us burn daylight."
- "It beginning to grow a little duskish, Candlemas lustily bawled out for lights, which was opposed by all the Days, who protested against burning daylight."
- "The place was but scantily lighted, for the community at present could ill afford to burn daylight."
- "High on the list of iniquities was “burning daylight,” resorting to artificial light unnecessarily during the day."
- "Mercutio. Come, we burn daylight, ho! Romeo. Nay, that's not so. Mercutio. I mean, sir, in delay. We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day."
- "Brad calls out, “Let's not burn daylight when there's work to be done!”"