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"When big business goes head to head with unions, the unions clean their clock," said one Republican aide in Congress.
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clean someone's clock N. Amer. — clean someone s clock N. Amer. informal beat or decisively defeat someone. → clean … English new terms dictionary
clean someone's clock — informal give someone a beating he went wild and cleaned everybody s clock down there in the dugout ■ defeat or surpass someone decisively … Useful english dictionary
clean — clean1 [ klin ] adjective *** ▸ 1 not dirty ▸ 2 not guilty/illegal/wrong ▸ 3 smooth/regular/neat ▸ 4 light and fresh ▸ 5 without writing/errors ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) not dirty: Go and put on a clean shirt. nice clean towels spotlessly clean:… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
clean — adjective 1》 free from dirt, marks, or pollutants. ↘attentive to personal hygiene. 2》 morally pure. ↘not offensive or obscene: good clean fun. ↘showing or having no record of offences or crimes. ↘done according to the rules. 3》… … English new terms dictionary
clock — clock1 /klok/, n. 1. an instrument for measuring and recording time, esp. by mechanical means, usually with hands or changing numbers to indicate the hour and minute: not designed to be worn or carried about. 2. See time clock. 3. a meter or… … Universalium
clock it — vb to defeat one s opponent, win a contest. The term may have derived from the jar gon employed in the Nintendo Game Boy computer games, or from the collo quial Americanism to clean someone s clock , meaning to defeat or confound … Contemporary slang
clean your clock — If you clean your clock, you beat someone decisively in a contest or fight … The small dictionary of idiomes
Beat the Clock — For the Sparks song, see Beat the Clock (Sparks song). Beat the Clock Genre Game show Presented by Bud Collyer (1950–1961) Jack Narz (1969–1972) … Wikipedia
mop the floor with someone — verb To trounce or defeat thoroughly or in a humiliating manner. She moppped the floor with her opponent, defeating him 68 to 2. Syn: clean someones clock … Wiktionary
slug — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. hit, swat, belt; bash, smash, whale. See impulse. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. goldbrick, laggard, idler; see loafer 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) I n. Sl. drink, swig, *hit, *shot. II v. hit, whack,… … English dictionary for students
