clock in

Idioms  

1. Begin work, as in She clocked in late again. Also, clock out, end work, as in Please wait for me; I forgot to clock out. The allusion here is to punching a time clock, a device that punches the time on a card to record when an employee arrives and departs. [Late 1800s]

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Example Sentences

Most of them clock in at around 35 minutes, although the latest season premiere runs just over an hour.

From Salon

In one instance, he exploited a loophole in the rulebook that allowed the Titans to eat up nearly two minutes of clock in the fourth quarter without running any plays, simply by committing presnap penalties.

From The Wall Street Journal

But at night car lights flash across the dark living room, sirens wail, the clock in the kitchen tick-tick.ticks, and I think about the terrible things that could have happened to Mom.

From Literature

Most days, she works overtime, typically clocking in from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

From The Wall Street Journal

The original version of “Do You Feel Like We Do” appeared on “Frampton’s Camel” in 1973 and clocked in at nearly 7 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal

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