English
Pronunciation
Prepositional phrase
like clockwork
- (simile) With perfect regularity and precision; faultless.
- Synonyms: swimmingly, smoothly, without a hitch
- Coordinate term: like atomic clockwork
Translations
with perfect regularity and precision
- Finnish: kellontarkasti, täsmälleen (fi)
- German: wie am Schnürchen (de), wie geschmiert, wie geölt
- Hebrew: כמו שעון
- Hungarian: (precisely at the expected time) óraműpontossággal (hu), (like a breeze) mint a karikacsapás
- Icelandic: eins og í sögu (is), snurðulaust
- Italian: puntuale come un orologio
- Polish: jak szwajcarski zegarek
- Romanian: ca pe roate
- Russian: как часы́ (kak časý), как по часам (kak po časam), спо́ри́ться (ru) impf (spórítʹsja)
- Spanish: como la seda, como mecanismo relojero, sin falta, como reloj
- Swedish: som ett urverk
- Turkish: saat gibi (tr)
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