Search for crossword answers and clues
They may give you the time of day
Answer for the clue "They may give you the time of day ", 6 letters:
clocks
Alternative clues for the word clocks
- Things seen in most public buildings, but almost never in casinos
- Time keepers
- European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up
- Records, as a race time
- They've got the time
Word definitions for clocks in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage [syn: redstem ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of clock English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: clock )
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Clocks were an English indie pop band, formed in Epsom & Ewell (just outside London ) in 2000. After deciding in 2005 to take music seriously, they spent their university vacations gigging and recording. They have recorded with Liam Watson ( The White Stripes ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
clocks \clocks\ n. 1. European weed naturalized in the southwestern U. S. and Mexico ( Erodium cicutarium ), having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender pinlike fruits that stick ...
Usage examples of clocks.
When I say I would like to see those clocks, I mean I would like to examine and feel them with my own fingers.
The hands of these four clocks were set at thirteen minutes past four.
Is there any association in your mind, any suggestion you could possibly make about anything to do with clocks, or if not with clocks, say with time.
Can you recall off-hand how many clocks there are in the sitting-room?
I told Edwards I wanted the clocks in the sitting-room packed up carefully and brought here.
Four clocks, each roughly an hour ahead of the right time, and all introduced into the house without the knowledge of the owner, or so she said.
The presence of irrelevant clocks, the advancing of time by an hour, the arrangements made so deliberately for the discovery of the body, all these must be set aside for the moment.
His clocks were set at one minute past five, four minutes past five and seven minutes past five.
I can be specific because Ursula brought many such clocks into our home.
This was that for all her obvious interest in clocks, Ursula never had the least idea of the time.
It was more the overall uncouth monotony of the clocks that palled: _that_, more than the detail work applied to any one of them.
As time passed, Ursula brought in more and more clocks, until, long before the end, I was almost afraid to count how many.
I fancy (or perhaps I know) that Ursula wanted there to be no room in our house without _one_ of her clocks in it.
And this was true even though most of our clocks spoke but once, however frequently they did it.
The mixed-up noise made by all the different clocks had odd effects upon me.