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The phrase "a clock off the wall" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a clock that has been removed from its usual position on a wall, often implying it is no longer functional or is being relocated.
Example: "After the renovation, we found a clock off the wall that had been hidden behind the furniture for years."
Alternatives: "a clock taken down" or "a clock removed from the wall".
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He's knocked a clock off the wall with his efforts to get free and now some dudes on his way with keys".
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She takes the clock off the wall.
On his way out, he ripped the restaurant's time clock off the wall and took the time cards, presumably to remove evidence that would have shown who was on duty at the time of the killing, one law enforcement official said.
That's an off-the-wall proposition.
—Lochte ripped a poster off the wall.
A clock on the wall was frozen at 5 05.
She glanced at a clock on the wall, as the seconds ticked by.
Sallie Taylor was sitting in her apartment in Northeast Washington one evening in January 2015 watching "Bible Talk" when her clock fell off the wall and broke.
This went on for nearly half an hour, as a large clock on the wall ticked off the minutes.
The wooden clock, which was made by the artist James Borden, fell off the wall and collapsed into pieces.
Push off the wall into a handstand.
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