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clean someone's clock



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Idioms and Phrases

Beat, thrash, or defeat someone decisively, as in He's much bigger than you and could easily clean your clock . This term originated in the military. The use of clock is unclear but possibly alludes to hitting someone in the face (for “clockface”). [ Slang ; mid-1900s]

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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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