فلانی داره سعی می‌کنه زمان بخره تا ...!

Question

Please write appropriate proverb / idiom / slang / phrase / collocation for this sentence along with the respective link from a credible source:

زمان‌خریدن (مثلاً: فلانی داره سعی می‌کنه زمان بخره تا بدهیش رو دیرتر تسویه کنه!)

 

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Answer 1

to gain time

::I hoped to gain time by keeping him talking.

Answer 2

buy (somebody) time

to deliberately make more time for yourself to do something, for example by delaying a decision

‘Can we talk about it later?’ he said, trying to buy a little more time.

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English