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When reporting to work as some factories, a worker would pick up a time card with his employee number on it. He would then insert the card into a slot in a special clock that would punch coded holes into the card. At the end of the work day, he would insert the same card into the clock when he left the factory. The "punched" time card was a record of when he entered and left his work place, and used as the basis for computing his pay. He did not actually "punch" the clock, rather, the clock punched his time card. But the term "punch the clock" was used to mean that someone was checking into or out of the workplace and this meaning was the same even when no time card was actually used. I know about this matter from my short experience working in steel mill in 1959.

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