VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Like clockwork

Meaning:

If something happens like clockwork, it means that it happens predictably, without any problems.

Examples:

  • Given time, we will have this facility open and happy and running like clockwork with access for all.
  • Yet despite the fact that the time-space worlds are run like clockwork, there's human fickleness.
  • You take the pill every day like clockwork, right?
  • We went bankrupt the first of every month, like clockwork.
  • The point is, my brilliant plan worked like clockwork.
  • Every week like clockwork, up till 3 weeks ago.
  • He's here once a week like clockwork.
  • Pretty steady, now that I think about it, like clockwork.
  • And he would ask me on a date, every week like clockwork.
  • We had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork.