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the hands make the clock

a phrase with a double meaning.

1. the creator is the one who shapes the creation to be what it is.

2. some things are just necessary and everything else isn't.
"you did really well on that test!" "oh, thank you, professor! the hands make the clock, as they say!"
by krissalamander February 20, 2025
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Alarm clock

The demon box that is quiet until you want to sleep.
MY FUCKING ALARM CLOCK WONT WAKE ME UP!
by Phsycho#56209 January 13, 2017
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THE CLOCK HITTER

when 12 guys stand around one girl while they all brutally f her in like ear
by AKA SEXY April 29, 2019
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Clock-Noose

When a person, usually your spouse or in-law, tries to pin you down to a certain time even though they know certain aspects are out of your control and they are pretty aware you will be not arriving when they want you to.

After the question is posed in several ways, the offender usually succumbs and blurts out a time they know will make the spouse happy but is totally implausible, thus hanging themselves based on the time they were coerced into stating.
Wife: So what time will you be home tonight?
Husband: I am not sure because of this 5pm meeting today and the usual traffic.
Wife: Usually you are home at 5:45, so maybe you will be here like 5:50?
Husband: When I get home at 5:45 I do not have 5pm meetings on those days so it is hard to say
Wife: How long is your meeting?
Husband: I'm not running it so I am not sure
Wife: Traffic shouldn't be too bad since it's friday so you can probably get here by 6pm I would think, don't you?
Husband: yeah sure 6pm

The husband was effectively put in a clock-noose
by Thejuice April 9, 2013
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clock

Clocks have pointers called hands, but personally I think they should be called fingers instead.
clocks can tell time.
I like clocks.
by sushi & mars December 24, 2020
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Clock

Circle with numbers and 2 black sticks that move
“I saw a circle with numbers and two sticks that move today” “that’s a clock Karen”
by Potatocheespart June 12, 2018
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Clock Spider

An outdated meme that has somehow begun trending again for no discernable reason.
John: Yo, why the hell did Pepe become such a hit again? It died like three years ago.
Jason: Yeah, it's such a Clock Spider, dude.
by CallousedCalcium December 12, 2016
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