English in a Minute: Phrases with 'clock'
Learning English Vocabulary
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
What phrases do you know with 'clock'? Learn some in this podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | You're listening to BBC LearningEnglish.com. |
| 0:10.9 | A watch, a clock, a timer, let's learn phrases with time. |
| 0:19.3 | If time flies, it goes very quickly. The full phrase is time flies when you're having fun. Have you seen the time? It's six already. Time flies. In the nick of time means at the last possible moments. We often add the word right or just before it |
| 0:39.9 | to really emphasise the meaning. Few, we'll catch the flight right in the nick of time. |
| 0:48.1 | If you're pressed for time, you don't have much time. Is this meeting going to be short? |
| 0:54.8 | I'm a bit pressed for time. |
| 0:57.4 | And time will tell means you'll find out in the future |
| 1:00.6 | the result of something happening in the present. |
| 1:03.9 | The word only is often put before this phrase. |
| 1:07.7 | They always argue. |
| 1:09.9 | Will they still be married next year? |
| 1:12.1 | Only time will tell. |
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