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clock-watching

n. continually looking at the time to see how much longer one has to work or study

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clock-watching

n. paying excessive attention to the clock (in anticipation of stopping work)

Usage examples of "clock-watching".

But times had changed under the Rads, and now even Whitechapel had its tight-laced scrubfaced women and its cakey clock-watching men, who read the 'Dictionary of Useful Knowledge' and the 'Journal of Moral Improvement', and looked to get ahead.