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Punch out   /pəntʃ aʊt/   Listen
Punch out

verb
1.
Register one's departure from work.  Synonyms: clock off, clock out.






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"Punch out" Quotes from Famous Books



... of us then were all earls, And jewels we wore without name; We drank punch out of rubies and pearls,— Mr. Petrie can tell you the same. But except some turf mould and potatoes, There's nothing our own we can call; And the English,—bad luck to them!—hate us, Because we've more fun ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever

... to tearing out our hearts," cried Alric, feeling emboldened now that the stout door stood between him and his foes, "if ye do not make off as fast as ye came, we will punch out your eyes ...
— Erling the Bold • R.M. Ballantyne

... through it all, and they had finally arrived at Anadyrsk safe and well. The sum-total of their baggage when they drove into the settlement was a quart bottle of whisky wrapped up in an American flag! As soon as we were all together, we raised the flag on a pole over our little log house, made a whisky punch out of the liquor which had traversed half north-eastern Siberia, and drank it in honour of the men who had lived sixty-four days with the Wandering Chukchis, and carried the stars and stripes through the wildest, least known region on the ...
— Tent Life in Siberia • George Kennan

... then is to carry it to some kind of smith and get him to punch out the rivet. Then we can take the blade out entirely. By this means we can clean it of its rust, and then put it in again with a new rivet. If you will give me your knife to-morrow, I will try to put it in order for you again, in one or ...
— Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont • Jacob Abbott

... others broken in. You'll pick them up along that little creek there, six miles out'; he pointed indefinitely into the heat haze on the plain, where there seemed to be some trees on the horizon. 'Collar them, and then you'll find the milkers' herd right back of the homestead, only a few miles. Punch out seven of the biggest ...
— Peeps At Many Lands: Australia • Frank Fox



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