clean someone's clock

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To defeat someone decisively, in a physical fight or other competition or negotiation. idiomatic,informal
    — "When big business goes head to head with unions, the unions clean their clock," said one Republican aide in Congress.

词形变化

cleans someone's clock present,singular,third-person cleaning someone's clock participle,present cleaned someone's clock participle,past cleaned someone's clock past

词源

From clean (“to thrash, defeat”) and clock (“face”) as metonym for “guy”, “someone”.
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