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单词 like clockwork
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like clockwork

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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]

Words nearby like clockwork

like anything, like a shot, like as not, like as two peas in a pod, like a ton of bricks, like clockwork, like crazy, like death warmed over, like father, like son, like fun, like gangbusters
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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