have time on your hands meaning?

Question

What is the meaning of "to have time on your hands" idiom?

Answer 1

 

Idiom Conjugations:

 

Answer 2

Gerund Form of the Idiom:

Having time on your hands can be relaxing and enjoyable.
 

Answer 3

Idiom Usage:

Having too much time on your hands implies that you should be doing something better with your time.
Having some time on your hands means that you have a limited amount of free time.
 

Answer 4

Idiom Scenario 2:

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Friend 1:  "What are you doing?"
Friend 2:  "I'm building a model of the Eiffel Tower using matchsticks."

Friend 1:  "You have got way too much time on your hands!" 
Friend 2:  "I don't have a job right now so I have a lot of free time."

Answer 5

Idiom Scenario 1:

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Two friends have met on the street and are talking ...

Friend 1:  "Hey, I thought you had English class right now."
Friend 2:  "We were supposed to have a class but it was canceled."
Friend 1:  "Oh well, since you have some time on your hands, would you like to go for a coffee?"
Friend 2:  "OK.  I don't really have anything better to do."

Answer 6

Idiom Definition:

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"to have time on your hands"

a period of time when you have nothing that you have to do.
a period of idle time.
 

Synonyms: break, breather, dawdle, dilly-dally, free, freedom, halt, idle, idleness, inactivity, indolence, interim, interlude, intermission, laze, lazing, lazy, leisure, letup, loaf, loafing, lull, pause, recess, repose, respite, rest, spare, suspension
 



She has a lot of time on her hands therefore she has spare time to relax and read ...