| 单词 | around the clock |
| 释义 | around the clock (once / 17205 pages) adv When you're working around the clock, you're busy all day and all night long. Around the clock means for an entire 24-hour day. The phrase around the clock is used most commonly when someone is hard at work, or is doing something difficult. You might say that a new baby seems to cry around the clock, or that the emergency room in your city is busy around the clock. It's easy to understand how this saying arose when you imagine the hour hand on a clock moving all the way around its face twice — in other words, marking a whole day. WORD FAMILYaround the clock USAGE EXAMPLESViewers who are looking for more conventional storytelling are also tuning to Investigation Discovery, which offers true crime series and specials around the clock. Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) Twelve firefighters would be on duty around the clock. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) Army Corps of Engineers monitors around the clock. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) adv without stopping she worked around the clock Syn for 24 hours, round the clock |
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