The phrase "a clock for a" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific purpose or function of a clock, often in a metaphorical or illustrative context.
Example: "This is not just any timepiece; it's a clock for a busy professional who needs to manage their time effectively."
Alternatives: "a timepiece for a" or "a timer for a".
In most film sequences, the camera lingers on a clock for a few seconds.
Anyone looking to give a clock for a present, Stripey Cat's animal-themed ones make a special gift.
Peter Swanson's The Girl With a Clock for a Heart was my favourite debut thriller of 2014.
The Girl with a Clock for a Heart (Faber, £7.99) may be a title calculated to make us think of girls with dragon tattoos, but any such commercial wheezes can be ignored; Peter Swanson's distinctive thriller is nothing at all like the work of any late Swedes.
Peter Swanson, "The Girl With a Clock for a Heart" (William Morrow).
I sent him some of the novels I'd previously written, and he liked some and didn't like others (one thing about my agent is that he will always tell me exactly what he thinks), but what he was really excited about was the possibility of turning the short story I'd written (The Girl With a Clock For a Heart) into a novel.
"I want to shoot a clock for an hour so that I can see that minute hand spin all the way around.
It still has the same name, Bus Terminal, and a painted map with a clock for each time zone.
"You get into the car or buy a clock for your nightstand and push a button and radio comes out," he said.
They asked: Is not the eye as manifestly designed for seeing, and the ear for hearing, as a pen for writing or a clock for telling the time; and does not such design imply a designer?
The time-keeping mechanism in a clock, for example, is a relatively stable assemblage of components in relatively fixed locations that work the same way, with the same organizational features, each time it works.
