time-waster | Idiomator

Meaning: Someone whowastestheir owntimeor thetimeofothers.I showed him round the property thinking he was a prospective buyer, but in fact he was just atime-waster.; (informal,idiomatic)Somethingunproductive.Email was supposed to improve business efficiency, but all too often it turns out to be atime-waster.; Something whichpassesthetimethat may or may not be seenpositively.This puzzle book is a goodtime-wasterwhen my train is late.

Examples:

EN: - She... she's such a time-waster.
ES: Es una perdedora de tiempo.
EN: - Me? I'm a time-waster?
ES: ¿ Yo soy una perdedora de tiempo?
EN: Fucking time-waster.
ES: Una maldita pérdida de tiempo.
ES: ¡Estoy deprimido!
EN: - Here you are you goddamn lying, car-thieving, doodling time-waster!
ES: ¡Ahí estás, maldito dibujante, ladrón de autos... mentiroso ocioso!
EN: A total time-waster and really annoying.
ES: - ¿Va Ud. a Florida? Sí.
EN: - Okay, here's a time-waster.
ES: - Esto sí que es perder el tiempo.
EN: -Virgil, you're just a time-waster.
ES: ¿Sabes que Virgil? Me haces perder el tiempo.
EN: Oh, bloody time-waster!
ES: ¡Oh, maldita perdida de tiempo!
EN: He's a time-waster and he'll never make a booking.
ES: Es un desperdiciador de tiempo y nunca hará una cita.
EN: Because you're a mentally deranged time-waster.
ES: Porque es un mentalmente desquiciado malgastador de tiempo.
EN: I... I showed him some places, and he turned out to be a real time-waster.
ES: Le mostré algunas casas y resultó ser una pérdida de tiempo.
EN: That's it. He was treated like some sort of deluded sexually-deviant teenage time-waster.
ES: Fue tratado como un adolescente alucinado desviado sexual que hacía perder tiempo.
EN: All of these codes and intersecting files were planted there as a big time-waster.
ES: Todos estos códigos y archivos vinculados fueron puestos ahí para hacer perder el tiempo.
EN: Are you some fucking time-waster?
ES: ¿Eres un maldito desperdicio de tiempo ?
EN: He's got a zillion things to do and he thinks the set is a big time-waster and I'm beginning to see his point.
ES: Tiene como tropecientas cosas que hacer, y cree que el plató es una gran pérdida de tiempo y empiezo a entender por qué.

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