for the time being (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Temporarily; for now; until later; until the situation changes; in an indefinite period of time.
I think I will ignore the problem for the time being.
1941 October, F. S. Bond, “The Railways of China”, in Railway Magazine, page 440:And so, unfortunately, this great and spreading network of railways, that recently showed such promise as a major instrument in the modern development of China, must be left for the time being in the melting-pot of Armageddon.
2022 September 24, Sam Jones, “Ill-fated Spanish village poised to be destroyed a third time”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:Neither Aracil nor his five friends have the money to pay for the costs of the demolition, which, they say, are punitively over-inflated. For the time being, their hopes rest on legal appeals, and should those fail, on a crowdfunding campaign.
temporarily; until later
- Azerbaijani: hələlik (az)
- Belarusian: паку́ль (pakúlʹ)
- Catalan: de moment (ca), ara per ara
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 就目前而言 (jiù mùqián éryán), 暫時/暂时 (zh) (zànshí), 權時/权时 (zh) (quánshí), (formal) 權且/权且 (zh) (quánqiě), 姑且 (zh) (gūqiě)
- Czech: prozatím (cs)
- Dutch: voorlopig (nl), vooreerst (nl)
- Estonian: ajutiselt
- Finnish: toistaiseksi (fi), tällä erää, tältä erää
- French: pour le moment (fr), pour l’instant (fr)
- German: fürs Erste (de); vorerst (de), einstweilen (de), vorläufig (de), zunächst einmal, bis auf Weiteres (de)
- Hungarian: egyelőre (hu), pillanatnyilag (hu), per pillanat
- Icelandic: í þetta sinn
- Italian: per il momento
- Japanese: 当分の間 (とうぶんのあいだ, tōbun-no aida), 差し当たり (ja) (さしあたり, sashiatari), 取りあえず (とりあえず, toriaezu)
- Polish: na razie (pl), chwilowo (pl), póki co (pl)
- Portuguese: por enquanto (pt)
- Romanian: deocamdată (ro), pentru moment
- Russian: пока́ (ru) (poká), пока́ что (ru) (poká što), до поры́ до вре́мени (ru) (do porý do vrémeni)
- Spanish: por ahora, por el momento, por lo pronto, de momento, hoy por hoy
- Swedish: tills vidare (sv), för tillfället (sv)
- Telugu: ప్రస్తుతానికి (prastutāniki)
- Turkish: şimdilik (tr), geçici olarak
- Ukrainian: по́ки (póky)
- Welsh: am dro, am y tro
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