tick-tack

In Measure for Measure, "tick-tack" literally means the game Tic Tac Toe, although euphemistically it refers to sexual play.

Shakespeare on Games 2008

Lucio worries that Claudio's sister Isabella should be kept in a chaste environment: "I pray she may; as well for the encouragement of the like, which else would stand under grievous imposition, as for the enjoying of thy life, who I would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a game of tick-tack."

Shakespeare on Games 2008

A short corner and a tick-tack combination of passes and crosses saw defender Jacek Bak volley dangerously off Macho's hands, and mid-fielder Dariusz Dudka's scissor-kick at the ensuing rebound was only matched in quality by Macho's diving save.

Poland 1-1 Austria: Late Drama Keeps Hosts Alive, Free Beer to Goal-Scorer 2008

In Measure for Measure, "tick-tack" literally means the game Tic Tac Toe, although euphemistically it refers to sexual play.

Archive 2008-03-01 2008

Lucio worries that Claudio's sister Isabella should be kept in a chaste environment: "I pray she may; as well for the encouragement of the like, which else would stand under grievous imposition, as for the enjoying of thy life, who I would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a game of tick-tack."

Archive 2008-03-01 2008

We had way more fouls called against us (they were in the double bonus before we were even in the bonus), most of which were very tick-tack fouls.

drbigbeef Diary Entry drbigbeef 2006

I pray she may; as well for the encouragement of the like, which else would stand under grievous imposition, as for the enjoying of thy life, who I would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a game of tick-tack.

Measure for Measure 2004

I could hear the tick-tack of his iron every time he knocked one of the spikes in.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

As if to divert her mind, he reproduced for her the tick-tack of the spit in the kitchen, the shrill cry of the fish-vendors, the saw of the carpenter who had a shop opposite, and when the door-bell rang, he would imitate Madame Aubain: “Felicite! go to the front door.”

A Simple Soul 2003

I could hear the slow tick-tack of a clock, and a child crying a little.

Hunger 2003