"flog the clock" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flogs the clock",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flogging the clock",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flogged the clock",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flogged the clock",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "flog the clock (third-person singular simple present flogs the clock, present participle flogging the clock, simple past and past participle flogged the clock)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "name": "English predicates",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1956, New South Wales. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, page 1449",
          "text": "I recall that I was in the second mate's watch when he accused me of flogging the clock. He did not see me put it forward but obviously he knew the ways of boys.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Jimmy Buchan, Trawlerman: Life at the Helm of the Toughest Job in Britain",
          "text": "On one trip three lads on night watch all had the same idea, and when the skipper went up to the wheelhouse the following morning he was spitting mad, wanting to know who'd flogged the clock a half-hour forward.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To set the clock forward in order to shorten one's time on watch."
      ],
      "id": "en-flog_the_clock-en-verb-pyKWTLLc",
      "links": [
        [
          "forward",
          "forward"
        ],
        [
          "shorten",
          "shorten"
        ],
        [
          "watch",
          "watch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(naval slang) To set the clock forward in order to shorten one's time on watch."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "naval",
        "navy",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flog the clock"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flogs the clock",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flogging the clock",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flogged the clock",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flogged the clock",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "flog the clock (third-person singular simple present flogs the clock, present participle flogging the clock, simple past and past participle flogged the clock)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English predicates",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1956, New South Wales. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, page 1449",
          "text": "I recall that I was in the second mate's watch when he accused me of flogging the clock. He did not see me put it forward but obviously he knew the ways of boys.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Jimmy Buchan, Trawlerman: Life at the Helm of the Toughest Job in Britain",
          "text": "On one trip three lads on night watch all had the same idea, and when the skipper went up to the wheelhouse the following morning he was spitting mad, wanting to know who'd flogged the clock a half-hour forward.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To set the clock forward in order to shorten one's time on watch."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "forward",
          "forward"
        ],
        [
          "shorten",
          "shorten"
        ],
        [
          "watch",
          "watch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(naval slang) To set the clock forward in order to shorten one's time on watch."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "naval",
        "navy",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flog the clock"
}