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Garry Shandling

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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

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eleventh hour

[eleventh hour] {adj. phr.} Pertaining to the last minutes; the last opportunity to accomplish a task. * /The editors made several eleventh hour changes in the headlines of the morning […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

on the hour

[on the hour] {adv. phr.} Each time the hour has zero minutes and zero seconds. * /The uptown bus goes past the school on the hour./ * /The woman must […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

standard time

[standard time] also [slow time] {n.} Clock time that is set by law or agreement in a country or in part of a country; especially, in the United States: the […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

strike the hour

[strike the hour] {v. phr.} To mark or toll the hour (said of clocks or bells). * /We heard the church clock strike the hour of two./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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