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Like clockwork   /laɪk klˈɑkwˌərk/   Listen
Like clockwork

adverb
1.
With regularity and precision.





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"Like clockwork" Quotes from Famous Books



... this order like clockwork for some time, so that when Dory did not appear on the board the others looked about for him. Just at that moment a piercing cry arose, and a dozen pairs of eyes were turned out on the lake where the boy was seen struggling frantically. It was evident that the boys ...
— Tom Slade at Temple Camp • Percy K. Fitzhugh
... 'em on the green paper work, because it's got arsenic in it, and it makes your head ache, and you're liable to blood poisonin'. One the girls fainted and had spasms, and as soon as he found it out he took her right off; and he's just like clockwork to pay. I think it'll do everything for S'tira to be along 'th me there, where I can ...
— The Minister's Charge • William D. Howells


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