it's just/only a matter of time (before…)

it's just/only a matter of ˈtime (before…)used to say that sth will definitely happen, although you are not sure when早晚的事；只是时间问题It's only a matter of time before they bring out their own version of the software.他们推出自己的软件只是个时间问题。

• vitiable
• quadrilinguals
• satyromaniac
• endostraca
• senorita
• jump（或climb）on the bandwagon
• signal generator
• Hohokam
• condensity
• get your teeth into sth
• wine-tastings
• hot toddies
• phallotoxin
• potentiations
• deal a blow to
• be no stranger to sth
• gravitational repulsion
• connecting peptide
• truck system
• holonomic system
• promulgators
• high-hearted
• amblyoscopes
• Lac Operons
• leap up
• webbier
• adiaphoresis
• prize fellowship
• explosible
• statelets
• attainment age
• embracery
• acoustic detectors
• hydriae
• ass about
• heroizes
• wildfowled
• All Saints' Day
• plainchants
• neurostatus
• matrifocality
• French West Africa
• ornithopod
• gerrymanderer
• drippy
• quota quickie
• bluestone
• particularity
• stomachically
• Jervis
• bourgeoising
• dissatisfied
• power-driven
• porous
• indomitabilities
• concurrings
• formulator
• micro-ovening
• endocardiac
• weigh sb↔up
• plastids
• dowsing
• wetness
• windspout
• Krasnovodsk
• price index
• throw pillow
• be / go / keep on at sb
• vulval gland
• presentiments
• skirt chaser
• neutralizing capacitor
• synscp.
• set a trap
• CCF
• melancholiness
• baryspheres
• superfoetations
• slow match
• .lt
• photomosaic
• Graham Land
• unslinging
• zoophilist
• citizen's arrest
• polygamist
• Duved
• quaveries
• acute angle block
• unipolar transmission
• grills
• prairie dog
• coffinless
• spectrophotometric titration
• yawping
• cosie
• supercritical fluid chromatography
• I can't be fagged
• wouldn't think it past someone to do something
• walking leaves