well sneak up in English in this lesson we're going to talk about American
English idioms are you ready let's begin
work against the clock the idiom is work against the against the clock to work
against the clock now what does that mean well clock represents time in this
idiom and to work against time it means to do something very very bad you have
to work to get something done quickly work quickly you have a deadline a time
you have to meet so you're going to work fast now where could you use this idiom
well perhaps you have a deadline from your boss and the boss tells you hey you
have to have this task completed by Friday it's already Wednesday oh my gosh
I cannot get that done in two days of work time well I'm gonna have to work
against the clock to get this done in time means I'm going to have to work
very fast and I'll probably get it done but I'll have to put in some extra hours
yes and work quickly against the clock and that's the end of this video lesson
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