Usually means: Monitoring time excessively or obsessively.
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  1. clock-watch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. clock-watch: Wordnik
  3. clock-watch: Wiktionary
  4. clock-watch: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. clock-watch: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (clock-watch)

verb:  (intransitive) To continually check the time to determine how much longer one has to work or study.

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