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against the clock	In a time-restricted manner, to meet a deadline, hurriedly, timed.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
clock up	To accumulate a large amount of time.	Rate it: (5.00 / 6 votes)
face that would stop a clock	A shockingly unattractive face.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
work against the clock	To work very quickly because you know you only have a very limited period of time to do something.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
a stopped clock is right twice a day	A normally unreliable person or instrument can occasionally provide correct information, even if only by accident.	Rate it: (4.50 / 2 votes)
clock up	To accumulate a large distance.	Rate it: (4.00 / 2 votes)
stop an eight-day clock and throw it into reverse	Before batteries and household electricity were used to power clocks, most clocks had to be wound by hand to keep operating. Eight-day clocks were designed so they only had to be wound every eighth day and the movement only turned in a clockwise direction. Therefore, someone with an appearance objectionable enough to stop the clock and send the movement spinning in the wrong and opposite direction would be ugly indeed.	Rate it: (3.50 / 4 votes)
against the clock	Running out of time.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
around the clock	All the time or seemingly all the time; constantly.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
put the clock back	To change the time in a time zone to an earlier time.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
beat the clock	To perform a task or successfully complete an activity within a time limit.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
beat the clock	To be used or become operational before a deadline or date of expiration.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
beat the clock	To remain youthful; to live a long, healthy life.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
beat the clock	Perform a task quickly or within a fixed time limit.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
clean someone's clock	To defeat decisively, in a physical fight or other competition or negotiation.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
clock in	To begin work.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
clock in	To be measured at.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
clock is running	Alternative form of clock is ticking	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
clock is ticking	Time is running out; a deadline is approaching.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
clock off	to end work	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
clock out	To end work; to officially record a time when one terminates a period of work.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
clock out	To transmit individual bits of data under the control of a clock.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
clock out	To officially record a work-termination time for.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cuckoo clock	ornate timepiece	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
face that would stop a clock	A shockingly attractive face.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the clock	Remunerated per unit of time.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the clock	Working at one's job; occupied in some manner during one's hours of remunerated employment.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the clock	Of a taxicab, engaged for hire; displayed numerically as time or fare on the meter of a taxicab.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the clock	In the official time remaining in a game or other sporting event.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the clock	In the official time expired in a game or other sporting event.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the clock	Displayed numerically on the mileage or kilometric gauge.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
punch the clock	Ring-In With Your Time Card or as we say; "Punch the Clock"	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
put the clock forward	To change the time in a time zone to a later time.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
round the clock	Nonstop, 24 hours per day.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
run down the clock	To waste time at the end of a match such that it is terminated by running out of time, or during a match so a time penalty is made less severe.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
run out the clock	To preserve a lead in a game by retaining possession, to waste time.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
run the clock down	To run down the clock	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
turn back the clock	To return to a previous state.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
wind back the clock	Figuratively to return in time to an earlier period of history.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
work around the clock	To work all day and all night without a break, because it is imperative to finish something.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
day and night	All the time; round the clock; unceasingly.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
Dutch reckoning	Used other than as an idiom. as reckoned by the Dutch: five o'clock by the Dutch reckoning would be five o'clock in the Dutch rather than, e.g., a Canadian time zone; for example, 1 March 1625 in the Dutch reckoning was, in the English reckoning of the time, 19 February 1624(?).	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
lightning chess	A form of chess in which each player must move much faster than normal. Time is controlled by a clock or a buzzer. If a player fails to make the time control he or she forfeits the game. Also known as speed chess.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
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!	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
de tous les instants	perpetual, constant, round-the-clock	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il a fait le tour du cadran	1. He has slept the clock round. 2. He has worked for twelve hours at a stretch.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
the stroke of noon/midnight	Rarely hear it anymore. It is the moment of arrival at a time of the clock	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
turn back	No turn a dial anticlockwise or adjust a clock or other meter to an earlier time or reading.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
what time have you got	used to ask someone for the time of day, especially for checking against one's own clock	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)