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Idioms and Phrases
Finish something or succeed before time is up, as in The paper went to press at five o'clock, and they hurried to beat the clock . The term comes from various sports or races in which contestants compete within a certain time limit.Advertisement
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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