while away

passer agréablement le temps

Passer du temps de façon détendue et agréable, sans faire quoi que ce soit d’important.

En anglais simple : To spend time in a relaxed, pleasant way, without doing anything important.

• We whiled away the afternoon in the garden.
• She whiles away long journeys reading novels.
• How do you while away the hours on rainy days?

Comment l'utiliser : while away + time + doing something (We whiled away the afternoon playing cards.); while something away (She whiled the hours away with a book.)

Synonymes : pass the time, kill time

Expressions courantes : while away the hours, while away an afternoon, while away some time

s’écouler, passer

En parlant du temps, s’écouler.

En anglais simple : If time does this, it passes.

• The hours whiled away slowly.
• The afternoon whiled away as we waited by the window.
• Long days whiled away in the quiet village.

Synonymes : pass, elapse

Expressions courantes : hours while away, days while away