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at one's convenience
Idioms and Phrases
Also, at one's earliest convenience . Whenever one wishes; also, as soon as one can. For example, Pick up the car any time, at your convenience , or We need that drawing very soon, so please finish it at your earliest convenience . The use of convenience in the sense of 鈥渆ase鈥 or 鈥渁bsence of trouble鈥 dates from about 1700.Example Sentences
Using the phone as a phone is said to be excessively intrusive, an immediate demand upon someone鈥檚 time as opposed to a message one can read and respond to at one鈥檚 convenience.
They were unable to be sought out, let alone viewed at one鈥檚 convenience.
The pictures, which are of extremely minute duration, are thus permanently recorded and can be examined and analysed at one's convenience and leisure.
She felt perfectly safe with Sadie, and would have trusted her, if it were necessary, with the money she had hidden away in her closet at Uncle Starkweather鈥檚; yet the other girl looked upon the laws of the land to which she had come for freedom as merely harsh rules to be broken at one鈥檚 convenience.
House Cleaning Hints.鈥擣or the last few days before house cleaning, ornaments and pictures can be washed at one's convenience.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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