time of life
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- noun
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etapa de la vida
- This time of life often brings unique opportunities for personal growth and learning.
What happens in in that horrible time of life?
- What happens in in that horrible time of life?
- Different ages, different gender, different histories, different personalities, different, you know, time of life, you know, everything.
- So it's that time of life and, you know, we we had a good time and and that was about it for the story.
Examples
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This was exactly what I needed at this time of life.
Blog text (12) -
The teenage years represent a significant time of life when many explore their identities.
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Why should meaning be any more at issue in old age than in earlier times of life?
Academic text (1999) -
Yes, it is an important time of life.
Blog text (24) -
This is a crucial time of life for the formation of relationships and the establishment of family life.
Academic text (2002) -
High school and middle school years are such an awkward time of life for most teens, "normal" teens.
Blog text (10) -
Because encouragement of autonomy optimally occurs within the context of positive and supportive relationships with parents, the attachment system plays a vital role in helping adolescents through this developmentally challenging time of life.
Academic text (2005) -
For many people, their twenties are a challenging time of life filled with new responsibilities.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal temporal sense — a period in someone’s life — is directly derivable from 'time' + 'of' + 'life', so learners can infer it refers to an occasion or period. However, the idiomatic evaluative meaning (a particularly enjoyable or memorable period, as in 'the time of my life') goes beyond simple composition and is not fully predictable without exposure, making it only partially transparent.
Etymology
Time of life shows the simple picture of one particular time in someone's life, like a chapter with its own events. So it means a 'period' or 'stage' in a person's life.