English in a Minute: Phrases with 'clock'

单集文稿 ...

• 00:00

  You're listening to BBC Learning English dot com.

• 00:04

  A watch, a clock, a timer.

• 00:08

  Let's learn phrases with time.

• 00:13

  If time flies, it goes very quickly.

• 00:17

  The full phrase is time flies when you're having fun.

• 00:21

  Have you seen the time?

• 00:22

  It's six already.

• 00:24

  Time flies.

• 00:26

  In the nick of time means at the last possible moment.

• 00:30

  We often add the word right or just before it to really emphasise the meaning.

• 00:37

  Phew!

• 00:37

  We'll catch the flight.

• 00:39

  Right in the nick of time.

• 00:42

  If you're pressed for time, you don't have much time.

• 00:46

  Is this meeting going to be short?

• 00:48

  I'm a bit pressed for time.

• 00:51

  And time will tell means you'll find out in the future the result of something happening in the present.

• 00:58

  The word only is often put before this phrase.

• 01:01

  They always argue, will they still be married next year?

• 01:06

  Only time will tell.