Stop someone's clock

"You wouldn't last thirty minutes if I wasn't behind you," Dandy Bob snapped. "Somebody would stop your clock, only they're afraid of me."

Navarro aimed his cocked Colt at Homer Winters's fear-etched face. “Come and pick him up before I stop his clock.”

I cannot let it stop my clock, I'm far from the end of my road.

Mom wasn't in no mood for lallygagging and she give him a look that stopped his clock.

Somebody who played a grim little war-game with him; not wanting to kill him, only to kill time, to stop his clock for a couple of hours.

“He wasn't going to change his tune,” Tucker said. “So I stopped his clock. Now he knows not to bugger us about.”

Those words, from her mouth, stopped my clock.

Yet when Garry Kasparov failed to stop his clock after making a move in a World Championship match, it was his opponent, Anatoly Karpov, who was criticized for failing to alert him.