Russian equivalent of "You took your (own) sweet time (doing ...)"

Question

Ты не торопилась (+ infinitive ...)!

There were a couple of occasions where I wanted to say this to my girlfriend who has a habit of spending hours on end doing shopping.

This is the only phrasing I could come up with with my currently rather limited vocabulary, but I wonder if it doesn't somewhat fall short of the meaning conveyed by the English expression.

How do Russian speakers commonly express this idea?

Answer 1

First thing comes to mind: "Тебя только за смертью посылать" -- "you're the (good) one to go fetch (our) death". But that's rather strong expression, although it might be used jokingly.

There are lots of "real" folklore expressions, too, but I doubt they get much use these days.

UPDATE: And if you aren't looking for a "real" idiom, these ones might work: "пять минут опозданием не считаются" (five minutes late doesn't count as late -- just ironic); "пять минут ждём и уходим" (we wait five minutes more, then leave -- students' joke, when the professor is late to the auditorium).

Also, "(он/она) не опаздывает, а задерживается!" -- ironic "clarification", referring to a supposed "chief person", meaning "you can't say he/she is late, he/she is really (just) delayed".

Answer 2

"Ты [делала что-либо] целую вечность!"

"Тебя не дождёшься!"

"Я заждался!" (this shifts focus from her to yourself, but it's not that illogical - after all, it's all about your perception of the time she spent, she may think that "да только на минуту, одним глазком заглянула!")

Answer 3

In Russian the phrase would sound more complete with qualifiers such as не слишком/не больно/не особо/не особенно (example from a dictionary) and more idiomatic with adverbial participle instead of infinitive, for example

Ты не особо спешила/торопилась, перебирая платья

but it lacks the connotation of indulgence, and i'm not sure it in itself is still idiomatic enough, it still sounds kind of awkward, let alone the fact that adverbial participles are a rare bird in colloquial language.

What could fit the bill is the phrase

На шоппинг ты времени явно/уж точно/совсем не пожалела - You really didn't spare/ took all / haven't been frugal with your time doing/on shopping

It's an ad-hoc variant with a connotation of rebuke, rather a translation than a stable construction in Russian, but idiomatic and has a potential for pattern derivation.