like clockwork
veryregularly, or atexactlytheplannedtimes:
非常有规律；极为准时Since therecentimprovementsto theservice, thebusesarerunninglikeclockwork.最近，自从改进服务后，公交车运行得非常准时。
Mydaughteralwayscallsme everyFridayevening, (as)regularasclockwork.我女儿总是每星期五晚上给我打电话，非常准时。
Frequency & regularity - general words
- (as) regular as clockworkidiom
- -ly
- clockwork
- endemically
- erratic
- erratically
- fitful
- frequency
- irregular
- irregularity
- irregularly
- many
- many a timeidiom
- on and offidiom
- on-off
- periodic
- periodically
- prevalence
- religiously
- would
like clockwork| American Dictionary
like clockwork
exactlyasplanned:
Sofar, everything hadworkedlikeclockwork.
Examplesoflike clockwork
like clockwork
He was a splendid chairman and the committee ranlikeclockwork.
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The scheme should be workinglikeclockwork, but it will take from six to eight weeks to process the application.
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It has the finest orators, and everything goeslikeclockwork.
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They are totally predictable and operatelikeclockwork.
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I hope that no one listening to the debate or reading reports of it afterwards will assume that road schemes runlikeclockworkanyway.
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But apart from that one episode, the whole matter wentlikeclockwork.
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They think that everything will runlikeclockwork.
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We are making the length of the face such a distance that everything has to golikeclockworkso that men shall get the work done in a prescribed time.
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We did not keep a register, but the operation wentlikeclockwork, and a survey by the community health council commended the way in which the problem was handled.
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We must remember that if mobilisation were ordered everything depends on celerity, celerity of arrangements and of railway transport, so that all should worklikeclockwork.
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Everything might runlikeclockwork.
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It workslikeclockwork, but one does not buy a novel to tell the time.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There were months of preparation involved so that it could runlikeclockwork.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Unfortunately, all he learns is that she liveslikeclockwork, and makes no effort to enjoy life.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Critics called the film entertaining and fun with twists that arriveslikeclockwork.
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- haversack
- haves
- have sb by the balls
- have-sb-by-the-balls
- have sb eating out of your hand
- have-sb-eating-out-of-your-hand
- have sb in the palm of your hand
- have-sb-in-the-palm-of-your-hand
- have sb on
- have-sb-on
- have sb over a barrel
- have-sb-over-a-barrel
- have (sb's) blood on your hands
- have-sb-s-blood-on-your-hands
- have sb's guts for garters
- have-sb-s-guts-for-garters
- have sb's number
- have-sb-s-number
- have sb/sth hanging round your neck
- have-sb-sth-hanging-round-your-neck
- have sb taped
- have-sb-taped
- have sb to thank (for sth)
- have-sb-to-thank-for-sth
- have sb up