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make one tick

[make one tick] {v. phr.}

To cause to operate; to motivate.

/He is so secretive that we are unable to figure out what makes him tick./

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates © 2010

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