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