tick tack

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(onomatopoeia) The sound of repeated tapping, knocking, or clicking. / (countable) A device used to tap on a window or door from a distance.

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The tick tack of the old clock echoed through the empty hallway.

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意味（1）

(onomatopoeia) The sound of repeated tapping, knocking, or clicking.

But come to the clock, Mary. Remember, our lives are short, and they contain only a certain number of tick tacks; we cannot, therefore, afford to waste them.

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意味（2）

(countable) A device used to tap on a window or door from a distance.

I got me a hammer and nails with the heavy lead sinker offen my fishnet, and it wasn't long before the finest tick-tack you ever saw was working against the Spiegelnails' parlor window, with me in a lilac-bush operating the string that kept the weight a-swinging.

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意味（3）

(UK, uncountable) Alternative form of tic-tac, a sign language used by bookmakers.

tick tacks （ plural ）