run the clock down
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[edit]run the clock down (third-person singular simple present runs the clock down, present participle running the clock down, simple past ran the clock down, past participle run the clock down)
- (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 […]