いちじつせんしゅう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of いちじつせんしゅう – see the following entry.

【一日千秋】 [noun] [from 1897] a strong sense of impatience, that what one hopes for will take forever before it comes to pass: the sense that time has slowed to a crawl

(This term, いちじつせんしゅう, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)