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run like clockwork



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Idioms and Phrases

see like clockwork .
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Check-in and checkout usually run like clockwork: between 2 and 4 p.m. on the front end and around 11 a.m. or noon on the back end.

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“This is a radical departure from development as a preprogrammed set of rules that run like clockwork,” says Thomas Zwaka, a stem-cell biologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

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“There’s a daily routine which evolves around mealtimes, several outfit changes every day, sometimes five, and the queen likes everything to run like clockwork. The focus is on being outdoors and in the countryside walking, grousing, fishing and hunting.”

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This vast system of oil fields, refineries and ports has largely run like clockwork despite political turbulence across the region.

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He designed the site’s processes so it would run like clockwork, even in his absence.

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