Clocks Phrases

Phrases

• ...of the clock
• Around the clock
• At sixty miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock (Rolls Royce advertising slogan)
• Beat the clock
• Clean your clock
• Clock on
• Clock watching
• Daylight saving time (the adjustment of clocks to provide longer evening daylight)
• Face that could stop a clock
• Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
• It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen (the opening line of Nineteen Eighty-Four)
• Put the clock back
• Race against the clock
• Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley song)
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Stop the clock, I've found a clue
• The biological clock is ticking
• The clock is ticking
• Turn back the clock
• Turn the clock back
• Victory won't wait for the nation that's late (Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan)
• Watching the clock