clock
UK /klɒk/US /klɑk/
noun12
verb12
forms
clocked · clocking · clocks
Phrases with clock
- round the clockA variant of the game of darts in which players attempt to hit each section of the dartboard sequentially, from lowest to highest number.
- around-the-clockAll day and night; all of the time.
- against the clockIn a time-restricted manner, to meet a deadline, hurriedly, timed.
- beat the clockTo perform a task or successfully complete an activity within a time limit.
- clean someone's clockTo defeat someone decisively, in a physical fight or other competition or negotiation.
- clock downTo tick, buzz or become marked to indicate the passage of time.
- clock inTo begin working time, especially by punching in (entering a workplace by punching a time card with the time clock).
- clock offto leave work, especially by recording the leaving time on a machine
- clock onTo record one's time of arrival at work, traditionally by inserting one's card into a timestamping machine.
- clock ontoTo recognize or acknowledge (something).
- clock outTo end work; to officially record a time when one terminates a period of work.
- clock the teaTo discover the truth about something.
- clock upTo accumulate (an amount of time or experience).
- get one's clock cleanedTo be thoroughly defeated.
- milk the clockTo use as much time as one can in order to gain a benefit.
- on the clockWorking at one's job; occupied in some manner during one's hours of remunerated employment.
- put the clock backTo change the time in a time zone to an earlier time, e.g. for the end of daylight saving time.
- put the clock forwardTo change the time in a time zone to a later time.
- run down the clockTo 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.
- run out the clockTo preserve a lead in a game by retaining possession, to waste time.