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like clockwork

1. at regular times I change my car's oil like clockwork every 3,000 miles.

2. without problems Most of the performance went like clockwork, but there were a few little things that weren't perfect.

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like clockwork

if something happens like clockwork, it happens at regular times He arrived at 7 every evening, like clockwork.

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like clockwork

Also, regular as clockwork. With extreme regularity, as in Ruth arrives every Wednesday morning just like clockwork, or You can count on his schedule, which is regular as clockwork, or Their assembly line runs like clockwork. This idiom alludes to the mechanical and therefore very regular action of a clock. [Second half of 1600s]

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like clockwork

With machinelike regularity and precision; perfectly: The project proceeded like clockwork.

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