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单词 against the clock
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against the clock

If you do something against the clock, you do it as fast as possible and try to finish it before a certain time.

When people do something against the clock, the time they take to do it is recorded, in order to find which person or attempt is the fastest.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Hurrying and doing things quickly

  • accelerate
  • acceleration
  • against time/the clock idiom
  • alacrity
  • at/on the double idiom
  • dose
  • haste
  • hasten
  • hasty
  • hit/press/push the panic button idiom
  • hurried
  • patch
  • rush
  • rush into sth
  • rush job
  • rushed
  • scrabble
  • sharpish
  • snap
  • throw

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Watches & clocks

against the clock

before a particular time, or within the allowed time:

I was racing against the clock, but I finished the test just before the bell.
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