| 词汇 | go/run like clockwork |
| 释义 | go/run like clockworkgo/run like clockwork SUCCEED IN DOING somethingto happen in exactly the way you had planned 顺利地进行 The concert went like clockwork. 音乐会进行得很顺利。 Examples from the Corpus go/run like clockwork• Then we had been surprised when our ascent of the nearby Jankopiti had gone like clockwork.• Sometimes it ran like clockwork, sometimes-as I wrote at the time-it ran like the movie Clockwise.• Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel, Senna's stop went like clockwork.• A universe that ran like clockwork also evinced design.• And if Lais and Leonore created the promised diversion the plan would go like clockwork. → go/run like clockwork at clockwork(1) |
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