Advertisement

Advertisement

clock is ticking, the



Discover More

Idioms and Phrases

The time (for something to be done) is passing quickly; hurry up. For example, The clock is ticking on that project . This allusion to a stopwatch is often used as an admonition to speed something up. It also is used in more specific form— one's biological clock is ticking —meaning that a woman may soon be too old to bear a child, as in Her biological clock is ticking—she just turned forty .

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.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


theciumClouds, The