Synonyms for ticks
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1. List of paraphrases for "ticks":

   tick, tics

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1. South Africa Zulu king:

   Let us pop our head lice, we must remove ticks and place them outside in the sun. We ask foreign nationals to pack their belongings and be sent back.

2. Max Lerner:

   We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

3. James Thurber:

   I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

4. Marisa Lankester:

   I never understood why it was illegal in the first place, it kind of ticks me off. Twenty-four hours ago, sports betting was illegal, now it’s like whatever.

5. Steve Feltham:

   At the moment, a Wels catfish ticks more of the boxes than any of the other contenders for the explanation, i would like it to be something new and undiscovered rather than something a little bit mundane. People do report four- or five-feet long necks sticking up out of Loch Ness. That's not going to be a Wels catfish.