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Buy Time

Meaning: do something so that you have more time or use up the time remaining
How to use in a sentence: The class didn't want to get a homework assignment so when the teacher started to give them the assignment they decided to buy time by asking her a bunch of questions about idioms.  Suddenly the bell went and they escaped without having been given their homework assignment. 

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