clean clock

clean (one's) clock

To thoroughly trounce, defeat, or beat up one. Watch it, pal, or I'll clean your clock for you! The visitors really cleaned the home team's clock tonight!

clean (someone's) clock

Slang

To beat or defeat decisively: "Immense linemen declared their intentions to clean the clocks of opposing players" (Russell Baker).

词组	clean clock
释义	clean clock clean (one's) clock To thoroughly trounce, defeat, or beat up one. Watch it, pal, or I'll clean your clock for you! The visitors really cleaned the home team's clock tonight! See also: clean, clock Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. clean (someone's) clock Slang To beat or defeat decisively: "Immense linemen declared their intentions to clean the clocks of opposing players" (Russell Baker). See also: clean, clock American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. See also: clean (one's) clock clean someone's clock clock out punch a/the clock punch the clock clock in set the/(one's) clock(s) forward put the/(one's) clock(s) forward move the/(one's) clock(s) forward turn the/(one's) clock(s) forward
随便看	get smart with someone get snowed get some get some action get some air get somebody into trouble get somebody nowhere/not get somebody anywhere get somebody off the hook get somebody's goat get somebody's meaning get somebody wrong get some kind of mileage out of get (some kind of) mileage out of (something) get (someone) around the table get someone bang to rights get (someone) by the balls get someone by the short and curlies get someone going get someone into trouble get (someone) onside get (someone or something) into shape get (someone or something) out of (one's) head get (someone or something) out of (one's) mind get (someone or something) out of (one's) sight go from one extreme to the other