"run the clock down" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "runs the clock down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "running the clock down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ran the clock down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "run the clock down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "run<,,ran,run> the clock down"
      },
      "expansion": "run the clock down (third-person singular simple present runs the clock down, present participle running the clock down, simple past ran the clock down, past participle run the clock down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "parents": [
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981, Norm Schachter, Close Calls: The Confessions of an NFL Referee, page 59",
          "text": "The only time I ever worried was when quarterbacks would run the clock down in the last 20 seconds […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To run down the clock."
      ],
      "id": "en-run_the_clock_down-en-verb-IQN1zKNE",
      "links": [
        [
          "run down the clock",
          "run down the clock"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To run down the clock."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "audio": "En-au-run the clock down.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/En-au-run_the_clock_down.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "run the clock down"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "runs the clock down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "running the clock down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ran the clock down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "run the clock down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "run<,,ran,run> the clock down"
      },
      "expansion": "run the clock down (third-person singular simple present runs the clock down, present participle running the clock down, simple past ran the clock down, past participle run the clock down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981, Norm Schachter, Close Calls: The Confessions of an NFL Referee, page 59",
          "text": "The only time I ever worried was when quarterbacks would run the clock down in the last 20 seconds […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To run down the clock."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "run down the clock",
          "run down the clock"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To run down the clock."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/En-au-run_the_clock_down.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "run the clock down"
}