like clockwork

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• Like Clockwork — Single by The Boomtown Rats from the album A Tonic for the Troops B side How Do You Do? Released Summer 1978 (UK) …   Wikipedia

• like clockwork — If something happens like clockwork, it happens at very regular times or intervals …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• like clockwork — ► like clockwork very smoothly and easily. Main Entry: ↑clockwork …   English terms dictionary

• like clockwork — adverb with regularity and precision the rocket launch went off like clockwork • Usage Domain: ↑idiom, ↑idiomatic expression, ↑phrasal idiom, ↑set phrase, ↑phrase * * * like clockwork As smoothly as if driven by clockwork • • …   Useful english dictionary

• like clockwork —    If something happens like clockwork, it happens at very regular times or intervals.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    To say that someone or something goes, runs or behaves like clockwork means that everything happens exactly as expected …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• like clockwork — See: GO LIKE CLOCKWORK or GO OFF LIKE CLOCKWORK …   Dictionary of American idioms

• like clockwork — See: GO LIKE CLOCKWORK or GO OFF LIKE CLOCKWORK …   Dictionary of American idioms

• like\ clockwork — See: go like clockwork or go off like clockwork …   Словарь американских идиом

• 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 …   New idioms dictionary

• like clockwork — adverb With perfect regularity and precision; faultless. You will find him there waiting for the bus every day at 4:14 pm, like clockwork …   Wiktionary

• like clockwork — happening or working correctly, with no problems or delays The ceremony went ahead like clockwork …   English dictionary