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 Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:46 am Post subject: |
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This is a conflation of two different expressions. Either one would be sufficient for the sentence.
When someone has time on his hands, he has nothing to do, nowhere to go, and has plenty of time for whatever might come up next. "Jerry lost his job, so he has time on his hands. Why don't you ask him to help you?"
When there is plenty of time to do something, we sometimes say there is all the time in the world, or someone has all the time in the world. "With the outfield playing close in, Smith hit the ball to deep center field, giving him all the time in the world to make it to third base."
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