take your time

Don't rush yourself

Take your time is an instruction or invitation to proceed without hurrying.

It reassures someone that there's no pressure to rush: Take your time, we're not in a hurry.

The phrase can also carry a note of impatience when someone is being slow: Oh, take your time, it's not like we have anywhere to be.

Opposites
urgency

take your timehurry up

Command to accelerate

rush · hurry · make it snappy · chop chop · get a move on

manner of action

take your timedash off

Write or leave quickly

throw together · slap together · cut corners · jump the gun · wing it

temporal pressure

take your timecrunch time

High-pressure final stretch

time is of the essence · under the gun

Family

take, your, time, takes, taken, taking, taker, takers, retake

Familiarity
Top 3,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G