This means that some person is always tending whatever it is .
For example, a switchboard that is manned around the clock would
always have an operator present.
Manned is a verb (past tense of man) and an adjective (a manned post).
The phrase "around the clock" means 24 hours. A store that is open around the clock is open 24 hours a day. The phrase is often used to indicate that someone or an agency is working full tilt on a project.
The words Of the clock form the contraction o'clock.Sentences:The elderly man looked at his timepiece. "I will give the boy till 3 of the clock to return the silver he stole!""I heard a loud noise at 1 of the clock, but I believed it was the maid stoking the fireplace. Then, at 2 of the clock, I found her at the bottom of the stairs."
Could mean around the clock or 24-Hr availability. Could also refer to radio programming and advertising, (News around the dials) was one a newspaper phrase for the radio equivalent of the TV guide section.-could also refer to television broadc asting, and impoied(Ever-ready) or always on call status.
Hickery Dickery Dock, The Mouse Ran Up The Clock
Working all the time, around all hours of the clock.
"Around the clock" just means 24/7, as in at all times.
All day and all night. Basically 24/7.
Working 24 hours 7 days a week,
in the opposite direction to the way in which the hands of a clock move around.
what does the small hand on the clock mean
blood clock
blood clock
Twist Around the Clock was created in 1961.
The objectives of the program, which made six manned flights from 1961 to 1963, were specific: To orbit a manned spacecraft around Earth;
The first manned mission that went into orbit around the moon was Apollo 8, commanded by Frank Borman.
The duration of Twist Around the Clock is 1.43 hours.