2021年4月22日 · "Long overdue", on the other hand, means that this something is so much beyond the deadline that all hopes have been lost, and your landlord will have to litigate, and you had better worry. Also, "long overdue" seems to be more idiomatic; a Google search for "long due" returned 1.1 mln results, and for "long overdue", 15.4 mln results.

2022年6月30日 · If we say it is 'past time' for something to happen, we mean that it is overdue for that thing to happen. It should have happened by now. It is past time for my son to go to sleep without a bedtime story. He is aged 34. If we say something …

Turning to Google Books Ngram Viewer, I ran a query with the following search term: weeks' time,weeks time,weeks overdue,weeks' overdue,weeks' late,weeks late. From this: The most common time expression (noun) is weeks' time, with an apostrophe. The expression weeks' overdue (adjective), doesn't appear at all.

2015年4月16日 · It was a long, long drop. Source: Roald Dahl: Dip in the Pool ... long due vs long overdue. 0. Precise ...

2017年6月2日 · overdue. is used to describe a situation which is late or past due. The library book should have been returned last week, it is now overdue. Your sentence. I faxed one overdue this morning. is an incorrect use of "overdue", your might have meant. I faxed one late this morning. Your first sentence also is incorrect.

a) It's [it has] been so long since we had a meeting that I've forgotten. b) It's [it is] so long since we had a meeting that I've forgotten. To my ears, option a) sounds better: you are using the present perfect has been to express the ongoing situation that time has been progressing without any meetings since the last meeting you had (simple ...

(Idiom for dying) The Sheriff finally sent George to a long-overdue meeting with his maker. (maker = God, means killed George, meeting=encounter, this isn't a session) (Idiom for strong agreement) They had a meeting of minds (they don't even have to communicate for this to occur)

Now if an explanation is overdue it means that something was supposed to be explained much earlier in time, and it never was. Say you have a girlfriend and your girlfriend gives you signs that she's been seeing someone else without your knowledge, if you confront her and say "I think an explanation is overdue" that means you've been seeing ...

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2014年2月27日 · it would typically convey a sense of irritation at having been made to wait too long. I say typically because one can always use tone of voice to change this. Now, "would you help me, please" sounds bit less insistent to me than using could, I suppose because it's asking if one is willing to help rather than if one is able to.