Talk:make good time

RFD discussion: September 2017–February 2018

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make good time

I'm not convinced. --2A02:2788:A4:F44:E0D4:8FEB:9536:5A23 17:29, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

2a02:2788:a4:f44:e0d4:8feb:9536:5a23 created this page and immediately RFDed it. I thought that was silly and therefore deleted it, but he/she wants it to go thru RFD process, so... here we are. Equinox ◑ 19:39, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

I think it should be kept - nothing is actually "made" here. SemperBlotto (talk) 19:42, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Abstain. You can "make bad time" too, so I suppose "better, worse, terrible, excellent" etc. might well be attestable. Unfortunately, make has 31 senses. Equinox ◑ 19:52, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Or lose time. DonnanZ (talk) 23:22, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

You can say someone is "doing excellent time" (I like to use "excellent" because it reduces interference from things like a prison sense of "good time", and some set phrases). You don't have to use an adjective either- "really making time" works just fine as an description of high speed (I've also seen "making time like crazy"). I also think there's a closely-related sense of "in [adjective] time", as in "arrive in excellent time" or "make the trip in excellent time" (not "at an opportune time" or "very much in time" but "in a short length of time"). Chuck Entz (talk) 23:37, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Bearing in mind it doesn't mean the same as make time, I wonder if the definition is a bit crappy, should it be "proceed at a satisfactory rate"? DonnanZ (talk) 13:43, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

I have split the original definition line into its three non-synonymous parts. Only the first is familiar to me (and to the three OneLook references that have entries for make good time). DCDuring (talk) 01:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Keep, but I only know one sense, which is something like "To proceed at a good pace relative to one's schedule", which is like present sense 1, but the idea of "relative to one's schedule" seems to me to be important to the meaning. Mihia (talk) 13:49, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Delete - this is already covered at make time as far as I can see - here 'good' is used typically - and you can make poor time, make excellent time, make shitty time, etc.; no need for entries for all of these. Sonofcawdrey (talk) 02:23, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Keep with the use of the lemmings heuristic; Merriam-Webster has it[1]. Furthermore, I did not know the phrase, and I am not sure it would occur to me to look it up under make time; at the very least, a redirect to make time would be required. --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:12, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

• RFD kept: no consensus for deletion. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:27, 3 February 2018 (UTC)