Phrase thesaurus
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