too soon
idiom
: before the time that is proper, preferred, or specified
I spoke too soon.
It's too soon to tell what will happen.
The show was over all too soon.
—often used in negative context to say at an appropriate or opportune timeThe plumber arrived, and not a moment too soon.
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Floodlighting is the latest dating trend making waves on TikTok, where people share deeply personal or emotional details too soon in a relationship, often in an attempt to accelerate intimacy.
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Pruning too soon can leave the tree vulnerable to winter damage.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2025
Even Benjamin Franklin had one, named Mongo (RIP, taken too soon by his dog, Ranger).
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2025
Others, like Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends, try and fail to make light of it; his satire of liberal elites sheltering in the Hudson Valley came too soon and was too burdened by its characters’ guilt at the relative ease of their experience.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2025
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Pruning too soon can leave the tree vulnerable to winter damage.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2025
Even Benjamin Franklin had one, named Mongo (RIP, taken too soon by his dog, Ranger).
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2025
Others, like Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends, try and fail to make light of it; his satire of liberal elites sheltering in the Hudson Valley came too soon and was too burdened by its characters’ guilt at the relative ease of their experience.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for too soon
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“Too soon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/too%20soon. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.
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