clock on
verb- To grow older; to proceed. · His birthday was another reminder of his life clocking on.
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He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits.
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