Meaning of stop someone's clock | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To kill someone.
   slang
2. To clean someone's clock; to make incapable of action; to thwart.
   slang
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, clock.

Examples

“"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."”

“Navarro aimed his cocked Colt at Homer Winters's fear-etched face. “Come and pick him up before I stop his clock.””

“I cannot let it stop my clock, I'm far from the end of my road.”

“Mom wasn't in no mood for lallygagging and she give him a look that stopped his clock.”

“Somebody who played a grim little war-game with him; not wanting to kill him, only to kill time, to stop his clock for a couple of hours.”

““He wasn't going to change his tune,” Tucker said. “So I stopped his clock. Now he knows not to bugger us about.””

“Those words, from her mouth, stopped my 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.”

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