单词 | clock-watching |
释义 | clock-watching (once / 1477414 pages) n WORD FAMILY clock-watching USAGE EXAMPLESMüller was not clock-watching, wasn’t just waiting for it all to end. New York Times(Dec 09, 2016) Here, Sutherland, clock-watching for the past 20 minutes, apologizes as she cuts the interview short – she has to head to the gym. The Guardian(Dec 22, 2015) By now, I was clock-watching, and inwardly swearing as we joined a long queue to register. BBC(Jul 07, 2015) n paying excessive attention to the clock (in anticipation of stopping work) Hyper attending, attention the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others |
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