clockwork English

Meaning clockwork meaning

What does clockwork mean?

Definitions in simple English

clockwork Noun

— If something works like clockwork it works very smoothly and correctly. The new car worked like clockwork.

clockwork

— noun any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock

Synonyms clockwork synonyms

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clockwork English » English

wind-up

mechanical

watch mechanism

spring action

clockwork timer

Topics clockwork topics

What do people use clockwork to talk about?

States Time Relative time Order, sequence

Regular

• What words indicate that something happens regularly?
  regular regularly at regular intervals every day daily be punctuated by with great regularity routine like clockwork

Examples clockwork examples

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Simple sentences

Everything's running like clockwork.

Movie subtitles

The imaging-instrument, linked to a clockwork.

We get our paychecks like clockwork, so what are you growling about?

He turns them out like clockwork.

Oh, yeah, shows up every day like clockwork.

Went just like clockwork.

My dream is my dream. and must obey like clockwork.

I felt like a pedlar trying to sell clockwork toys.

You should all move like clockwork.

A clockwork fuse.

Yeah, we're just like clockwork.

But I was a good toy clockwork soldier just like you are.

This thing has gotta go off like clockwork.

And every Friday night, even when times were bad, every Friday night, like clockwork, down those stairs of the Harmonia Gardens we came, Ephraim and I.

Then he gets someone to take the plane in his name, perhaps with the steward's complicity, and he hides a clockwork bomb in the luggage.

Ogin? Oh, yeah, shows up every day like clockwork.

My staff is small, compact, efficient. Runs like clockwork.

Everything went like clockwork.

But he did very well in the city, and regular as clockwork, every month, there'd be a check in the mail for me.

Once the money is deposited, everything'll be like clockwork.

You should all move like clockwork. Seventeen jewel.

It's going like clockwork.

Escapees being processed through here like clockwork, our sabotage squad blowing up everything in sight, our printing press turning out more money than the German mint, and Klink wants to make general.

Well, if everything goes like clockwork, and the guards stick to their schedules, yeah.

Exhibit A: A clockwork fuse.

But if someone cares with others, could know through what I did with Rudy Mina Purefoy and what goes with her husband, who fills one with son or two a year, like clockwork.

It's going like. clockwork.

We don't have that clockwork ticker in our heads like you do.

Everything running like clockwork.

She's just running like clockwork.

No, it's a clockwork egg timer.

They leave after supper at 9:30, just like clockwork.

He aspired to be a worthy colleague to the illustrious Tycho who for 35 years had been immersed in exact measurements of a clockwork universe ordered and precise.

A law which relates the motion of the various planets to each other which lays out correctly the clockwork of the solar system.

In 1705, Edmund Halley finally figured out that the same spectacular comet was booming by the Earth every 76 years, like clockwork.

Johannes Kepler constructed elaborate models to understand the motion and arrangement of the planets the clockwork of the heavens.

To illustrate the sun-centered universe of Copernicus he built computers that reproduced the clockwork of the heavens from Mercury to Saturn.

News and current affairs

A Clockwork Orange was accused of glorifying violence, and some of its scenes are still hard to watch.