"take one's sweet time" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "takes one's sweet time",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "taking one's sweet time",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took one's sweet time",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken one's sweet time",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "take<,,took,taken> one's sweet time"
      },
      "expansion": "take one's sweet time (third-person singular simple present takes one's sweet time, present participle taking one's sweet time, simple past took one's sweet time, past participle taken one's sweet time)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Patsy Caldwell, Amy Lyles Wilson, You Be Sweet: Sharing Your Heart One Down-Home Dessert at a Time:",
          "text": "It had been almost a year since Brother Steve had left, and they'd been stuck with one substitute after another while the bishop took his sweet time finding a permanent replacement. Lindsay just hoped the wait would be worth it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, “In the New Year”, performed by The Walkmen:",
          "text": "You took your sweet time\nAnd I waited by without complaint\n'Til all the pipe dreams made me insane",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take a very long time; to be too slow or leisurely in getting something done."
      ],
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          "slow"
        ],
        [
          "leisurely",
          "leisurely"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To take a very long time; to be too slow or leisurely in getting something done."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "take one's sweet little time"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take one's sweet time"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes one's sweet time",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking one's sweet time",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took one's sweet time",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken one's sweet time",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "take<,,took,taken> one's sweet time"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Patsy Caldwell, Amy Lyles Wilson, You Be Sweet: Sharing Your Heart One Down-Home Dessert at a Time:",
          "text": "It had been almost a year since Brother Steve had left, and they'd been stuck with one substitute after another while the bishop took his sweet time finding a permanent replacement. Lindsay just hoped the wait would be worth it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, “In the New Year”, performed by The Walkmen:",
          "text": "You took your sweet time\nAnd I waited by without complaint\n'Til all the pipe dreams made me insane",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take a very long time; to be too slow or leisurely in getting something done."
      ],
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        [
          "slow",
          "slow"
        ],
        [
          "leisurely",
          "leisurely"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To take a very long time; to be too slow or leisurely in getting something done."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "take one's sweet little time"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
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  "word": "take one's sweet time"
}