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clockwork
/ ˈɒˌɜː /
noun
- the mechanism of a clock
- any similar mechanism, as in a wind-up toy
- like clockworkwith complete regularity and precision
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of clockwork1
Idioms and Phrases
- like clockwork, with perfect regularity or precision:
The launching of the spacecraft went off like clockwork.
Example Sentences
“When we get the studio together now, it’s like clockwork. Both of us are so refined and coming together to do music makes it 10 times easier.”
Night after night, like clockwork: Boom, entire stockpiles gone.
Every Thursday "regular as clockwork" a Land Rover and a crew of three soldiers would make the trip to the bank in nearby Penicuik.
Like clockwork, every new year kicks off with Dry January, a campaign introduced by the national charity Alcohol Change UK in which people abstain from alcohol for the entire month of January.
Like clockwork, advertisements for weight loss programs and supplements are popping up on social media, ready to pounce on the demand.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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