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like clockwork |
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like clockwork if something happens like clockwork, it happens at regular times. He arrived at 7 every evening, like clockwork. 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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As the figure moved like clockwork, however, and could neither hasten his enormous strides nor retard them, he arrived at the port when they were just beyond the reach of his club. This force is so organized and subdivided that the machinery of the school goes on day by day like clockwork. By and by, there comes a great bustle downstairs, and a lanky chap with a red nose and a white neckcloth rushes up, and sings out, "Here's the shepherd a-coming to wisit his faithful flock;" and in comes a fat chap in black, vith a great white face, a-smilin' avay like clockwork. |
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like clockwork
