stop someone's clock

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To kill someone. slang
    — "You wouldn't last thirty minutes if I wasn't behind you," Dandy Bob snapped. "Somebody would stop your clock, only they're afraid of me."
  2. To clean someone's clock; to make incapable of action; to thwart. slang
    — Mom wasn't in no mood for lallygagging and she give him a look that stopped his clock.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, clock.
    — Yet when Garry Kasparov failed to stop his clock after making a move in a World Championship match, it was his opponent, Anatoly Karpov, who was criticized for failing to alert him.

词形变化

stops someone's clock present,singular,third-person stopping someone's clock participle,present stopped someone's clock participle,past stopped someone's clock past
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