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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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Every summer, like clockwork, a particular kind of collective amnesia lifts.

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“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.”

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Night after night, like clockwork: Boom, entire stockpiles gone.

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But earthquakes don’t happen like clockwork, and scientists cannot say for certain when the Raymond fault will rupture next.

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Berkheiser says infusions have gone “like clockwork” since his delayed start.

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