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on the hour

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[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 take her pill on the hour./

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	time ⁵⁴⁹ {adv. phr.} ⁵⁸³

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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