clockwork

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Here I come back: here's th' old Town Quay same as ever it was; and here likewise you all be, runnin' on as I left 'ee, like a clockwork--a bit slower with age maybe--that's all.

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  1. noun A mechanism of geared wheels driven by a wound spring, as in a mechanical clock.
  2. idiom like clockwork With machinelike regularity and precision; perfectly: The project proceeded like clockwork.

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  • Naoum sat smoking and gazing at the banks as they passed by; George gave himself up to reflections The man at the tiller moved to and fro with the regularity of clockwork, altering the tack as the wind chopped and changed about. —  Under the Rebel's Reign
  • Tik-tok moved by clockwork, and was made all of burnished copper. —  Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
  • Like an elaborate piece of clockwork, the whole affair was not as yet in motion. —  Belles and Ringers
  • Here I come back: here's th' old Town Quay same as ever it was; and here likewise you all be, runnin' on as I left 'ee, like a clockwork--a bit slower with age maybe--that's all. —  Hocken and Hunken
  • Such a man expects you to go like clockwork, and because you are not wound up just as he is, he insults you. —  The Way We Live Now
 

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/ˈklɑkwərk/
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