time warp
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noun
a hypothetical eccentricity in the progress of time that would allow movement back and forth between eras or that would permit the passage of time to be suspended.
Origin:
1950–55
1950–55
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| time warp | |
| —n | |
| 1. | any distortion of space-time |
| 2. | a hypothetical distortion of time in which people and events from one age can be imagined to exist in another age |
| 3. | informal an illusion in which time appears to stand still: he is living in a time warp |
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Idioms & Phrases
time warp
A stoppage in the passage of time; also, a distortion of time whereby an event or person could hypothetically move from one era to another. For example, Nothing in their lives has changed since the sixties; they're in a time warp, or Having a seventy-year-old actress portray a teenager
that was some time warp! This term originated in science fiction, where it signifies "a supernatural movement from one era to another," and came to be used more loosely. [c. 1950]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
The profession at times has seemed to be lost in a time warp.
But the current war can make tribes seem as if they belong in a time warp.
What is in play is that all light from all galaxies is bent by the space-time warp of gravity.
The second is that the air traffic control system has been sort of locked in a time warp.
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