a stopped clock is right twice a day »
A normally unreliable person or instrument can occasionally provide correct information, even if only by accident.
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against the clock »
In a time-restricted manner, to meet a deadline, hurriedly, timed.
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around the clock »
All the time or seemingly all the time; constantly.
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box the compass »
To know, and be able to recite the 32 points and quarter points of the magnetic compass from North, both clockwise and anticlockwise.
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clean someone's clock »
To defeat decisively, in a physical fight or other competition or negotiation.
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clock in »
To be measured at.
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clock in »
To begin work.
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clock up »
To accumulate a large amount of time.
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clock up »
To accumulate a large distance.
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cuckoo clock »
ornate timepiece
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day and night »
All the time; round the clock; unceasingly.
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face that would stop a clock »
A shockingly attractive face.
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face that would stop a clock »
A shockingly unattractive face.
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on the clock »
Displayed numerically on the mileage or kilometric gauge.
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on the clock »
In the official time expired in a game or other sporting event.
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on the clock »
In the official time remaining in a game or other sporting event.
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on the clock »
Of a taxicab, engaged for hire; displayed numerically as time or fare on the meter of a taxicab.
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on the clock »
Remunerated per unit of time.
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on the clock »
Working at one's job; occupied in some manner during one's hours of remunerated employment.
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put the clock back »
To change the time in a time zone to an earlier time.
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put the clock forward »
To change the time in a time zone to a later time.
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round the clock »
Nonstop, 24 hours per day.
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run out the clock »
To preserve a lead in a game by retaining possession, to waste time.
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turn back »
No turn a dial anticlockwise or adjust a clock or other meter to an earlier time or reading.
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wind back the clock »
Figuratively to return in time to an earlier period of history.
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work against the clock »
To work very quickly because you know you only have a very limited period of time to do something.
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work around the clock »
To work all day and all night without a break, because it is imperative to finish something.
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you can't get a quart into a pint pot »
What is being discussed is not possible.They've asked me to get to New York by five o'clock, but you can't get a quart into a pint pot!
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