tick away/by
— phrasal verb with tick uk/tɪk/us/tɪk/verb
If time ticks away/by, it goes past:
With the final seconds ticking away, Milan scored a goal.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Spending time & time passing
- all the time in the world idiom
- Anno Domini
- course
- elapse
- employ
- fall
- fall away
- misspend
- pass
- passage
- passing
- run
- sand
- slip away
- spread sth over sth
- the sands of time are running out idiom
- tick
- time and tide wait for no man idiom
- time flies idiom
- while
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