Meaning:
Forced to hurry to meet a deadline
Examples:
- Racing against the clock to save someone's life is exciting.
- They work against the clock and against the thermometer.
- Look, ice dancing is not against the clock.
- Every day three TV helicopters with capture the images of the special stage and send them in a race against the clock.
- This Community response instrument needs to be visible, coordinated, and very responsive, as natural disasters trigger a race against the clock.
- In 2008, the authorities of Rio state, one of the country's most violent, began a race against the clock to pacify the shantytowns in strategic locations in the city in preparation for the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.
- Race against the clock in this mini driving game.
- The game is against the clock over 20 levels.
- Race against the clock, collect all the buoys avoiding the rocks.
- We are therefore involved in a real race against the clock.