lose time

verb3

1. •
   To run slow and not keep accurate time.
2. •
   To waste time.

   • Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the Hispaniola was a clenching answer, and I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time. — 1881
3. •
   To fall behind schedule.

   • On the third day the train lost time more and more. She raged with painful impatience. No good, at every station the train sat longer. — 1925