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Definition of Like clockwork
1. Adverb. With regularity and precision. "The rocket launch went off like clockwork"
Definition of Like clockwork
1. Adverb. (simile) With perfect regularity and precision; faultless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Like Clockwork
Literary usage of Like clockwork
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Switzerland of the Swiss by Frank Webb (1909)
"It was neat, wonderfully clean, and going like clockwork; so like clockwork, in
fact, that I felt that all the water-mills must be wound up at night, ..."
2. To Bagdad with the British by Arthur Tillotson Clark (1918)
"like clockwork—the wheels turning steadily, the pendulum swinging without a hitch,
always moving ahead, moving ahead, striking, and striking surely at the ..."
3. Forty Years at the Post-office by Frederick Ebenezer Baines (1895)
"... which used to perform the voyage of 3622 miles between Southampton and St.
Thomas in 14 days and 9 hours like clockwork in the early sixties, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"Smiles like clockwork. — DICKENS. The singer smiled, as doubtless Orpheus smiled,
to 'see the animals both great and small, the mountainous elephant and the ..."
5. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell (1996)
"All through that summer the work of the farm went like clockwork. The animals
were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. ..."
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