LIKE CLOCKWORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does like clockwork mean? 

• LIKE CLOCKWORK (adverb)
  The adverb LIKE CLOCKWORK has 1 sense:

1. with regularity and precision

  Familiarity information: LIKE CLOCKWORK used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIKE CLOCKWORK (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With regularity and precision

Context example:

the rocket launch went off like clockwork

Domain usage:

idiom; idiomatic expression; phrasal idiom; phrase; set phrase (an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up)

 Context examples 

It was like clockwork.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)