英语词汇“watch the clock”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	watch the clock
释义	watch the clock phrase [VERB inflects] If you are watching the clock, you keep looking to see what time it is, usually because you are bored by something and want it to end as soon as possible. [informal] I started to watch the clock about halfway through the class. See full dictionary entry for clock Examples of 'watch the clock' in a sentence watch the clock I was watching the clock, desperate to talk to him, to introduce myself. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Find yourself watching the clock for home time? The Sun (2016) Watching the clock, looking at dates, counting repetitions, two skips of this, two seconds of that. Times, Sunday Times (2012) We all watched the clock, basically. Times, Sunday Times (2016) If you find yourself watching the clock, aware you're going to be tired, get up. The Sun (2018) People are watching the clock. Houston Chronicle (2002) However, when he was supposed to take his second-year exam he stayed in bed, depressed and demotivated, watching the clock tick round. Times, Sunday Times (2017)
随便看	to turn or tighten the screw(s) on sb to turn out to be to turn out well/badly to turn over a new leaf to turn sb's life or world upside down to turn sth inside out to turn sth over to to turn tail (and run) to turn the corner to turn the tables on sb to turn your back on sb/sth to twiddle your thumbs to twist sb's arm to twist someone's arm to-twist-the-knife to twist the knife twist the knife in sb's wound/turn the knife in sb's wound toucan toucan crossing toucanet touch touchable touchableness touch all the bases touch-all-the-bases touch and go

　

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