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Examples
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Tick-tock, watch the clock, stores are telling holiday shoppers.
Many Discounts, Few Deals Carl Bialik 2010
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Tick-tock, buddy, only forty i-Days left and I'm seeing no progress at all!
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As I have said many times before, "Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock. . ."
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Tick-tock, tick-tock.....can this day get any longer?
From The Mailbox Laura K 2006
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tick-tock, tick-tock, hear that?
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"Tick-tock, tick-tock," said the clock in a deep mellow voice.
The Cat in Grandfather's House Carl Henry Grabo
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After this was done, they went downstairs again, passed the big clock that winked and said, "Tick-tock, hello," and entered a sunny room where Grandmother sat in her easy chair.
The Cat in Grandfather's House Carl Henry Grabo
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Tick-tock, said the world to George Hazlitt; and his brain gave an answer, "Tick-tock!"
Erik Dorn Ben Hecht 1929
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The refrain "Tick-tock" was borrowed from a song which had been sung to her.
Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1922
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"Tick-tock, tick-tock ..." the watchman tapped lazily.
The Schoolmaster Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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