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Clean your clock??

Posted by Bob on October 27, 2000

In Reply to: Clean your clock?? posted by ESC on October 27, 2000

: : I'm looking for the origin of the phrase "clean your clock". HELP!!

: I haven't been able to find the origin of this one. Anyone have any ideas?

Two (speculative) ideas: the threat to hit someone in the face, since clockfaces have long been associated with human faces. Second, threatening a blow so violent it would blow the dust off the gears and inner mechanism of a clock, a veiled reference to shaking up the brain enough to scramble your senses. Pure guesswork.

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