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Discover LudwigThe phrase "clock up" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an informal idiom that means to accumulate or achieve a certain result. For example: "John clocked up an impressive record of ten sales in one day."
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clock up
verb
To accumulate a large amount of time.
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Remember, all day long we have a clock up there, the Dow, a news ticker".
Competitors set off at intervals to ride alone against the clock, up and down a wind-slapped A-road.
Most multicore processors clock up and down at the same time.
Davis hit his first attempt but missed the second, giving the Grizzlies the ball with 2.1 seconds left on the clock, up 107-106.
Cab meters clock up heady charges.
Any day now, it will clock up the 1000th discovery.
Meanwhile, Eddery continued to clock up the jockeys' championships.
He went on to clock up 630 flight hours.
I'm very happy to clock up as many franchises as there are going.
Hundreds of miles of trekking clock up in the course of these essays.
Kasabian are their biggest challengers with five nominations, while Muse clock up four.
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