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whatever winds your clock

whatever winds your clock phrase: synonym of whatever floats your boat.

Phrase

whatever winds your clock

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Synonym of whatever floats your boat.
    • The toy company is apparently announcing her selection Saturday at a press conference. “I thought my agent was playing a joke,” says the single mother of a 6-year-old girl. “I never dreamed I’d be Barbie.” Whatever winds your clock.1993 October 6, Pat Simms, “Snoop: Doctor meets Crawford after all”, in Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wis., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1B, column 1
    • No one cared less if Dex—Dos—wanted to stand and eavesdrop on people’s conversations. The waiter had passed through the swinging door a number of times while Dex stood hiding behind it with his ear pressed to the crack and only once did he stop to look at him; he shook his head with vague...2002, Bobbi McCutcheon, chapter 18, in Father Mars, Mother Earth, New York, N.Y.: RJ Communications; Juneau, Alas.: Gray Rabbit Enterprise, →ISBN, page 214

Examples of whatever winds your clock in a sentence

  • I do like my Bear, OK?” Hey, kid, whatever winds your clock …2007 March 5, Randy Galloway, “Galloway: Daniels’ gamble could pay off big time”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Tex., →ISSN...
  • But I don’t think I’ve ever really accepted it.” / “I don’t know why, but whatever winds your clock.”2021, Lea Tassie, “Saving Water”, in Eyes Like a Hawk:

Synonyms of whatever winds your clock

Questions about whatever winds your clock

What does whatever winds your clock mean?
Whatever winds your clock means synonym of whatever floats your boat.
How do you use whatever winds your clock in a sentence?
I do like my Bear, OK?” Hey, kid, whatever winds your clock …
What part of speech is whatever winds your clock?
Whatever winds your clock is a phrase.

Words near whatever winds your clock in the dictionary

  1. whatever next
  2. whatever sizzles your bacon
  3. whatever the case may be
  4. whatever tickles your pickle
  5. whatever will be, will be
  6. whatever winds your clock
  7. whatever you do
  8. whatever you say
  9. whatever's
  10. whateverism
  11. whateverisms

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