stopped clock
Motionless hands forever
A stopped clock tells the correct time twice a day—the basis for the expression even a stopped clock is right twice a day, meaning that even someone usually wrong or unreliable can occasionally be correct.
The phrase often carries a dismissive tone: the person got it right by accident, not insight.
- brokenDamaged beyond function
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- stillUnmoving, or continuing
- silentProducing no sound
- tick tockAlternating clock sounds
hands · midnight · noon · twice · right · old saying · pendulum · timepiece · stuck · motionless · grandfather · face · ticking · wound · chime · mantel · dial · antique
- game clockscountdown timer, stopwatch, countdown, digital display, buzzer
- death symbolsskull, skeleton, coffin, tombstone, gravestone
- omensomens, omen, portent, portents, signs
- death omensbanshee, death knell, death rattle, Grim Reaper, harbinger