around the clock

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   all day and all night without stopping

   There's a security guard posted around the clock.

   someone stays here and watches him around the clock.

In the movies · 10

• There's a security guard posted around the clock.Ant-Man2015
• all being used round the clock.Come from Away2021
• I say we schedule an around-the-clock watch on him.The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 22015
• Around the clock, Officer.The Bank Job2008
• We were operating around the clock.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button2008
• Interns pretty much work around the clockUnderworld2003
• We need to start everyone working around the clock.Ant-Man2015
• someone stays here and watches him around the clock.The Maze Runner2014

Learn it in full scenes

• Come from Away2021
  • Gander Learns of the Emergency
  • Planes Land Unexpectedly in Gander
  • Gander Declares a State of Emergency

From the same entry

• against the clock
• put the clocks forward
• put the clock back
• run down the clock
• the clocks go forward
• beat the clock
• a race against time clock
• stop the clock
• watch the clock
• clock in
• clock out
• clock up

More idioms

• every time
• get the picture
• over head
• be a believer in
• be on your best behaviour
• pull leg
• the sooner the better
• with the exception of
• take your place
• on the line
• make a mountain out of a molehill
• the apple of eye