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clock up
verb
- tr, adverb to record or register
this car has clocked up 80 000 miles
Idioms and Phrases
Record accumulated hours, miles, or points. For example, It won't be easy to clock up 1,000 flying hours , or Brian clocked up a record number of baskets this year . [Mid-1900s]Example Sentences
However, she had time to wind the clock up and set it going when she came downstairs again ready for church.
I put the clock up in the house, where it could be seen through the door without leaving the platform.
She had already wound the clock up, and it pleased her to think that its ticking would soon be audible all over London.
They're to carry the clock up to your house for a quarter apiece.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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