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Meanings of asking the time in English

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Usage of asking the time in English
1
She was nervously full of life, and kept on asking the time.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03
2
Other popular uses include playing songs, finding cinema times or asking the time.
The Irish Times
3
Then I found that he had been asking the time.
A Dominie in Doubt
4
After a moment Jean said, as quietly as if he were asking the time of day:
God's Country—And the Woman
5
"Take off the shirt," he said, voice as calm as if asking the time.
You can't stop me
6
"He's that restless," said the clerk's wife; " asking the time every three or four minutes."
Esther Waters
7
(The inevitable question, always put with as much simplicity and directness as if one were asking the time of day.)
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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