Truth4vahid
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What's the difference between time's up and time's over?
The first is natural and meaningful. The second isn't.What's the difference between "time's up" and "time's over"?
The first is natural and meaningful. The second isn't.
Do you have a source for that? I'm American and have never heard or seen Time's over.But in the US, they use both of them. Why is that?
But in the US, they use both of them. Why is that?
Thank you all. [STRIKE]guys.[/STRIKE]
I found out no comma here that "time's up" [STRIKE]it[/STRIKE] means that the time of something has finished, but "time is over" no comma here [STRIKE]it[/STRIKE] means it's too late to do something. Am I right?
Note my corrections above.
Please don't refer to us as "guys". We're not all male. As shown in post #2, you need to mark out the phrases you're talking about in some way. The most common way to do this is to enclose them in quotation marks.
Note my corrections above.
Please don't refer to us as "guys". We're not all male.
As I've remarked in the past, in current AmE parlance "guys" are both male and female, especially among younger speakers. When I say younger, I am thinking of my daughters, both in their early 40s.
Maybe this is a regional US thing, but I was shocked to hear some claim 'time's over' is meaningless. I was about to reply that they can be synonymous. I have definitely seen and used both versions in the context of a timed activity.