watch the clock
Frequency: 6.58.9 per million words
wanting their day's work to end
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Examples (10)
- Employees who are always watching the clock are often less productive.
- During the long, boring meeting, I couldn't help but watch the clock.
- He was so eager to go home that he'd been watching the clock all afternoon.
- Stop watching the clock and focus on your work; time will pass faster.
- The students started watching the clock ten minutes before the bell rang.
- If you enjoy what you do, you'll find you rarely watch the clock.
- I could tell he was anxious to leave because he kept watching the clock.
- On Friday afternoons, the entire office seems to be watching the clock.
- She tried not to watch the clock, but the last hour of her shift felt endless.
- When I was a kid in school, I would always watch the clock, waiting for recess.