like clockwork Význam & definice

Příklady like clockwork

• He was a splendid chairman and the committee ran like clockwork.

• The scheme should be working like clockwork, but it will take from six to eight weeks to process the application.

• It has the finest orators, and everything goes like clockwork.

• They are totally predictable and operate like clockwork.

• I hope that no one listening to the debate or reading reports of it afterwards will assume that road schemes run like clockwork anyway.

• But apart from that one episode, the whole matter went like clockwork.

• They think that everything will run like clockwork.

• We are making the length of the face such a distance that everything has to go like clockwork so that men shall get the work done in a prescribed time.