buy (sb) time

buy (sb) time to deliberately make more time for yourself to do something, for example by delaying a decision（为某人）争取时间; （为某人）设法拖延:•'Can we talk about it later?' he said, trying to buy a little more time.“我们呆会儿再谈这事好吗？”他设法再争取点时间。

• hit the high points
• papagayo
• key change
• summitry
• equivalencies
• isoallele
• cellobiase
• inclusion conjunctivitis
• lazzarones
• oil patch
• blow sb↔out
• self-immolation
• abound
• meddle with your match
• be concerned in
• preplannings
• a piece/slice/share of the pie
• cocotte
• spatioperceptual
• near gale
• make white black
• offload
• roller chain
• as far as I can judge
• Lunda
• fanaticising
• rackrent
• denunciations
• mesh weld
• hazard label
• maghemite
• intertropical
• cliff
• reinforced plastics
• oppilated
• anaerobic metabolism
• upsilon particle
• probe
• blebbed
• public law
• frostted
• gravitational radiation
• put in an appearance / make an appearance
• computer and information sciences
• on-line searching
• Roentgen, Wilhelm Konrad
• thoroughworts
• pairing-season
• kirlians
• neo-Hellenism
• terrestrial sphere
• terebene
• applets
• waterborne
• emborder
• gastralia
• nicety
• sociable
• ecosphere
• prink oneself up
• progressionists
• detected
• appropriatings
• Strachey, Lytton
• silicidize
• a large ticket item
• have ... in mind
• a pig (of a sth)
• hang around (…)
• fulber
• pulsebeats
• wampus
• media polling
• wildfowlers
• privatdocent
• floor-to-floor time
• charm schools
• hiddenite
• collide
• stern line
• tempestuousnesses
• c.i.p.w classification
• imbitterments
• warm to/towards sb
• aerootitis
• tendency chart
• aniline oils
• circument
• somatology
• cobalt trifluoride
• black dirt
• office park
• auk
• substitutable
• heals-alls
• irish potatoes
• out of someone's league
• aether
• Eurobanks
• tie up into knots