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Also, regular as clockwork . With extreme regularity, as in Ruth arrives every Wednesday morning just like clockwork , or You can count on his schedule, which is regular as clockwork , or Their assembly line runs like clockwork . This idiom alludes to the mechanical and therefore very regular action of a clock. [Second half of 1600s]

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