clock is ticking
phraseDefinitions
Time is running out
Time is running out; a deadline is approaching.
- Near-synonym: tick-tock (interjection)
- I have the feeling that even while the clock is ticking we are moving on to terrible things.
- The clock is ticking for Mikhail Gorbachev too. Of all the failures of political and economic theory in this century, the Soviet failure is the most spectacular.
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