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[ "Grandfather clock" refers to a floor-standing... ]
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"Grandfather clock" refers to a floor-standing, long-case clock at
least 6 feet tall. The name derives from a popular 19th-century song,
"My Grandfather's Clock," that starts "My grandfather's clock was too
tall for the shelf, so it stood 90 years on the floor. It was taller
by half than the old man himself, though it weighed not a pennyweight
more," and ends with "the clock stopped, never to run again, when the
old man died."
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