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.”

CEFR level