Tick, tock. Tick tock. Are you working yet? Sometimes, the only schedule worth keeping is the one you make yourself.

滴答、滴答。你还在工作吗？有时候唯一值得遵守的日程安排是为自己制定的那个。

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Jurors have also heard that in the period before the killing, he told Mrs Esack she was a "dead woman walking" and added "tick tock, tick tock".

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"I will always remember this day and I would like to thank my father because I owe everything to him, " added Dettori, who was ribbed by his fellow riders throughout the week and received one text message late at night from one of them which read simply 'tick tock, tick tock'.

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They really believed that their solution was best and that these tick-tock clocks simply could not be believed.

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