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around_the_clock

around the clock

See also: around-the-clock

English

Alternative forms

round the clock

Prepositional phrase

around the clock

(duration, idiomatic) All the time or seemingly all the time; constantly.
They worked around the clock to finish the project on time.

Synonyms

day and night

Translations

all the time

Chinese:
Mandarin: 夜以繼日 (zh), 夜以继日 (zh) ‎(yèyǐjìrì), 晝夜 (zh), 昼夜 (zh) ‎(zhòu-yè)
Finnish: kellon ympäri
French: autour de l'horloge
German: rund um die Uhr (de)

Hungarian: szakadatlanul (hu)
Japanese: 四六時中 (ja) ‎(しろくじちゅう, shirokujichū)
Portuguese: o tempo inteiro
Russian: кру́глые су́тки f pl ‎(krúglyje sútki), круглосу́точно (ru) ‎(kruglosútočno), два́дцать четы́ре часа́ в су́тки ‎(dvádcatʹ četýre časá v sútki)
Swedish: dygnet runt (sv)

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