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Clock Phrases

297 phrases and expressions related to "clock".

Phrases

  • ...Baby One More Time (Britney Spears album and song)
  • ...of the clock
  • A Brief History Of Time (Stephen Hawking book)
  • A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess book and Stanley Kubrick movie)
  • A bad quarter of an hour
  • A double date
  • A good time was had by all
  • A stitch in time saves nine
  • A week is a long time in politics
  • About time too
  • Accuracy to seconds a month (Pulsar Watches advertising slogan)
  • Advanced notice
  • Ahead of his time
  • Alarm bells began to ring
  • All in a good time
  • All the time in the world
  • All time low
  • Anti clockwise
  • Any time, any place, any where (Martini advertising slogan)
  • Any time, anywhere, acid indigestion can catch you out (Alka Selzer advertising slogan)
  • Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
  • Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
  • Around the clock
  • As full as an Alabama tick
  • As regular as clockwork
  • As tight as a tick
  • As time goes by
  • At a moment's notice
  • At sixty miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock (Rolls Royce advertising slogan)
  • At the eleventh hour
  • At the last minute
  • At this moment in time
  • At this point in time
  • Bad time
  • Bath time
  • Beat the clock
  • Better luck next time
  • Bide your time
  • Big Ben (tourist attraction in London England)
  • Big time
  • Bits per second
  • Blind date
  • Bring up to date
  • Buy some time
  • Buy time
  • Call time on
  • Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
  • Cheap date
  • Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see (3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan)
  • Chucking out time
  • Clean your clock
  • Clock on
  • Clock watching
  • Cloud cuckoo land
  • Come to the Central Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change (Central Park Zoo advertising slogan)
  • Cometh the hour, cometh the man
  • Crunch time
  • Cuckoo for Coco Pops (Coco Pops advertising slogan)
  • Date rape
  • Date with destiny
  • Daylight saving time (the adjustment of clocks to provide longer evening daylight)
  • Dead on time
  • Desmond Tutu (Cockney rhyming slang for Second class degree (2,2))
  • Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
  • Dickens of a time
  • Digital divide
  • Digital leader
  • Dinner date
  • Do hard time (Spend time in a high security prison)
  • Don't close your eyes for a minute
  • Don't touch that dial
  • Double time
  • Equal pay, equal time (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
  • Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings (line from It's A Wonderful Life)
  • Every time a good time (McDonald's advertising slogan)
  • Face that could stop a clock
  • Face time
  • False alarm
  • False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
  • First time caller
  • Five o-clock shadow
  • For the time being
  • Forever is a long time
  • From the beginning of time
  • From time immemorial
  • From time to time
  • Game time
  • Geological time
  • Get to second base
  • Gift of time
  • Go down for the third time
  • Good Time, Great Taste, That's Why This is My Place (McDonald's advertising slogan)
  • Good time charlie
  • Good time girl
  • Got no time for
  • Grandfather clause
  • Half a second
  • Hancock's Half Hour (BBC comedy radio and television series)
  • Hand in your notice
  • Hang on a minute
  • Hang time
  • Happy hour
  • Hate watch (viewing a television programme in order to mock it)
  • Have a second string to your bow have
  • Have you ever had a bad time in Levi's? (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
  • Hello big boy, would you like a nice time?
  • Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
  • High old time
  • High season (the most popular time to visit a resort or attraction - when prices are highest)
  • High time
  • Hold on a minute
  • I Second That Emotion (Smokey Robinson song)
  • I look at the world and I notice it's turning (The Beatles song lyric)
  • Idea whose time has come
  • If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
  • If you've got the time, we've got the beer (Miller Beer advertising slogan)
  • In good time
  • In less than no time
  • In no time flat
  • In real time
  • In record time
  • In the fullness of time
  • In the nick of time
  • In the right place at the right time
  • In your own time
  • Is this a great time or what? (MCI Communications advertising slogan)
  • It doesn't take a minute to bag it and bin it (UK public advertisement advertising slogan)
  • It takes a licking and keeps on ticking (Timex Corporation advertising slogan)
  • It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen (the opening line of Nineteen Eighty-Four)
  • It's Miller time! (Miller High Life advertising slogan)
  • It's a Good Time for the Great Taste of mcdonald's (McDonald's advertising slogan)
  • It's about time
  • It's high time
  • It's payback time
  • It's time for U (UPN advertising slogan)
  • It's time to call it a day
  • It's time to fly (United Airlines advertising slogan)
  • Just a question of time
  • Just in time
  • Just slightly ahead of our time (Panasonic advertising slogan)
  • Just watch
  • Keep time with
  • Keep watch
  • Kill time
  • Kill time until time kills you
  • Lapse of time
  • Last minute
  • Last time of asking
  • Late hour
  • Laugh a minute
  • Living on borrowed time
  • Local time
  • Long time no see
  • Lose track of time
  • Love In The Time Of Cholera
  • Make a date
  • Make good time
  • Make up for lost time
  • Man date
  • Man of the hour
  • March of time
  • Mark time
  • Matter of time
  • Miller Time (Nickname of Reggie Miller)
  • Mind the time
  • My finest hour
  • New York minute
  • Night Watch (Terry Pratchett book)
  • Nine while nine
  • Not on my watch
  • Not so as you'd notice
  • Now is the hour
  • Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
  • Old before your time
  • On second thoughts
  • On the hour
  • Once Upon A Time In America (Robert De Niro movie)
  • Once upon a time
  • One leg at a time (Dockers advertising slogan)
  • One minute to midnight
  • One more time
  • One second
  • One step at a time
  • One two three o'clock four o'clock rock
  • Only a matter of time
  • Only time will tell
  • Out Of Time (Rolling Stones song)
  • Out of date
  • Party time
  • Pass the time of day
  • Past its sell-by date
  • Peace in our time
  • People who like people like Dial (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
  • Play for time
  • Play second fiddle
  • Prime time
  • Procrastination is the thief of time
  • Put the clock back
  • Quality time
  • Race against the clock
  • Race against time
  • Radio alarm
  • Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley song)
  • Running like clockwork
  • Sack time
  • Same time tomorrow? (Diet Pepsi advertising slogan)
  • Say kids, what time is it? (A catchphrase from Howdy Doody Show)
  • Screen time
  • Second banana
  • Second best
  • Second bite of the cherry
  • Second childhood
  • Second class
  • Second degree burns
  • Second generation
  • Second nature
  • Second sight
  • Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Second storey man
  • Second thoughts
  • Second thoughts are best
  • Second to none
  • Second wind
  • See that girl, watch that scene (ABBA lyric)
  • Serve your time
  • Since time immemorial
  • Sit up and take notice
  • So many books, so little time (Frank Zappa quotation)
  • Some other time
  • Sound the alarm
  • Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch
  • Spend more time with my family
  • Spring forward, Fall back
  • Squeaky bum time
  • Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
  • Stop the clock, I've found a clue
  • Stupid-o'-clock (US army slang term that refers to any time very early in the morning)
  • Summer time (the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time)
  • Take one day at a time
  • Take time out
  • That's the second biggest ... I've ever seen! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
  • The Adventure of the Second Stain (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Best Second Banana in the Business (Nickname of Art Carney)
  • The Black Watch (Nickname of The Royal Highland Regiment)
  • The Last Time (Rolling Stones song)
  • The Last Time I Saw Paris (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
  • The Time (Dirty Bit) (The Black Eyed Peas song)
  • The biological clock is ticking
  • The clock is ticking
  • The darkest hour is just before the dawn
  • The first time is never the best (Campari advertising slogan)
  • The land that time forgot
  • The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes first (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
  • The one to watch (Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan)
  • The right place at the wrong time
  • The sands of time
  • The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things
  • The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll)
  • The witching hour
  • There's a time and a place for everything
  • There's no time like the present
  • There's one born every minute
  • Thin time of it
  • Third time lucky
  • Third time's a charm
  • This time it's personal (Jaws The Revenge advertising tagline)
  • This time next year we will be millionaires (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
  • Tick all the right boxes
  • Tick box
  • Tick follows tock follows tick follows tock (Guinness advertising slogan)
  • Till the end of time
  • Time Out Of Mind (Bob Dylan song)
  • Time after time
  • Time and again
  • Time and tide wait for no man
  • Time and time again
  • Time flies
  • Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
  • Time flies when you are having fun

Related

  • ...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
  • Face that could stop a clock
  • Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Put the clock back
  • Race against the clock
  • Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley song)
  • 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
  • Watching the clock