take one's (own) sweet time

: to get into one's hands or into one's possession, power, or control: such as

: to seize or capture physically

: to get possession of (fish or game) by killing or capturing

: a distinct or personal point of view, outlook, or assessment

: an act or the action of taking: such as

: the uninterrupted photographing or televising of a scene

: belonging to oneself or itself

used to express immediate or direct kinship

: to have or hold as property : possess

: to have power or mastery over

: to acknowledge to be true, valid, or as claimed : admit

: one or ones belonging to oneself

: pleasing to the taste

: being or inducing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is typically induced by disaccharides and is mediated especially by receptors in taste buds at the front of the tongue — compare bitter, salt, sour

: containing a sweetening ingredient : not dry

: in a sweet manner

: something that is sweet to the taste: such as

: a food (such as a candy or preserve) having a high sugar content

: dessert

: the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues : duration

: a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future

: leisure

: to arrange or set the time of : schedule

: to regulate (a watch) to keep correct time

: to set the tempo, speed, or duration of

: of or relating to time

: recording time

: timed to ignite or explode at a specific moment