tick away / by / past

tick away / by / past if time ticks away, by, or past, it passes, especially when you are waiting for something to happen〔尤指等待某事发生时〕时光在流逝，时间一点一点地过去:•We need a decision – time's ticking away.我们应该作出决定 — 时间正在一分一秒地过去。•The minutes ticked past and still she didn't call.时间一分一秒地过去，但她仍未打电话来。

• whack and hack
• asserters
• bieler
• Niles
• gapless
• sensory aphasia
• screeners
• poblaciones
• hamfatting
• letter quality
• gone on the water wagon
• spherical separator
• mapling
• celestial sphere
• incubators
• not want to know
• trochleae
• hear sb out
• subdivider
• tidal river
• Jeroboams
• talk ... round
• petrolin
• inscribers
• eightmos
• find one's grave
• plug fuse
• the body beautiful
• conchas
• much of a
• deoperculate
• put a name to
• primal
• to be on the receiving end
• short grain
• baguette
• Firmicutes
• predict
• avel
• partitioner
• gyplure
• engineerings
• out of the window
• epitheliochorial placenta
• make a hole in sth
• incised
• diarrhoeal
• density wave
• hsyncs
• piloting
• missaying
• on sb's / the doorstep
• ditones
• skinny-dipped
• in all verity
• magniloquence
• automize, automising
• Avalon,Avallon
• electronic pop
• Amphibolidae
• acquest
• national monuments
• blow the whistle on
• quinquefoliolate
• postcranially
• anodic
• good night
• full-line forcing
• in any event
• hudson bays
• cannot see beyond the length of one’s nose
• rounded
• fishgarth
• cairds
• adsorbable
• map ... out
• physiognomist
• amrinone
• tetragynous
• R plasmid
• semidiurnal current
• dry fruits
• recalescences
• Sheridan
• special providence
• baryoniums
• Westmark
• alphaphotographics
• a piece of ass
• thiodocecyl alcohol
• trebleness
• catch（或get）a sight of
• baresark
• Whig
• magnetic flux
• degasser
• kick away
• Gobiesocidae
• nondormant
• scale sth↔down