on the hour

on the hour
on the hour
at each hour on the hour mark. •

I have to take this medicine every hour on the hour.

I expect to see you there on the hour, not one minute before and not one minute after.

* * *
{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./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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