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run_the_clock_down
run the clock down
English
Verb
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To run down the clock
- 1981, Norm Schachter, Close Calls: The Confessions of an NFL Referee, page 59
- The only time I ever worried was when quarterbacks would run the clock down in the last 20 seconds before they ...
- 1981, Norm Schachter, Close Calls: The Confessions of an NFL Referee, page 59