stop someone's clock

verb2

1. •
   (slang) To kill someone.

   • "You wouldn't last thirty minutes if I wasn't behind you," Dandy Bob snapped. "Somebody would stop your clock, only they're afraid of me." — 2004
2. •
   (slang) To clean someone's clock; to make incapable of action; to thwart.

   • Mom wasn't in no mood for lallygagging and she give him a look that stopped his clock. — 1936